Gun Control in the Presidential Election
I tend to think it won’t be an issue. Democrats know to avoid it like the plague. Republicans are saying they’re for the assault weapons ban. It’s not good for either of them to say that. But this article disagrees:
Liberals say Republicans don’t care if “weapons of war” can once again get in the hands of people willing to kill innocent Americans, while conservatives say Democrats want to limit gun ownership by law-abiding Americans.
“The U.S. Senate had its vote today. Law-abiding gun owners will have their turn to vote in November,” Wayne LaPierre and Chris Cox, the National Rifle Association’s executive vice president and the group’s chief lobbyist, said in a joint statement.
Democrats had hoped to use a GOP bill preventing lawsuits against gun manufacturers and distributors as a vehicle for renewing the 10-year-old ban against the manufacture, importation and sale of military style semiautomatic weapons.
And I will say gun controllers don’t want freedom to choose aesthetic features of rifles once again get in the hands of people.
