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If the Democrats came down hard in favor of the Second Amendment, that alone would probably win them the national elections.
Yup.
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January 6th, 2005 at 10:14 am
Don’t hold your breath.
January 6th, 2005 at 10:40 am
Why? Because of their belief that our education system can be fixed with ever-increasing amounts of money? Because of their support of the victimization mindset of African Americans and their desire to increase welfare rather than decrease welfare roles? Because of their veneration of terrorists like Arafat and lionization of appeasers like Chirac? Because of their support for trial lawyers and desire to implement socialized medicine that has killed tens of thousands in Britain and Canada? Because they would enforce eminent domain to steal land from individuals for the greater good of the community — or to save an owl that can nest in K-Mart signs?
Is there one Dem “initiative” that isn’t based on junk science or hasn’t already proved faulty?
January 6th, 2005 at 11:31 am
The thing is, if they really and truefully changed their stance on the 2nd Ammendment, then their stance on the other stuff would probably change as well, because at the core of the belief in the Right to Bear Arms is a fundamental trust of the individual citizen. If the Democrats believed that the individual had the right to bear arms, then it would probably follow that they would start to believe that the individual has other rights as well, outside the Collective. In short, they wouldn’t be Democrats as we currently know them.
January 6th, 2005 at 12:44 pm
The best the Dems can do on the Second Amendment is to take it out of the debate entirely. Every time they come out stridently against the RKBA, they lose swing states, but if they ever took a strong stance in favor of it, they’d lose a major constituency, the GFW lobby. All they’d get in return is that the rest of us wouldn’t hate them quite as much as we do now.
January 6th, 2005 at 12:49 pm
thank god they don’t. It’s a blessing in disguise.
January 6th, 2005 at 4:37 pm
I suspect they wouldn’t even have to come down hard in favor of it, but simply stop being so hostile toward it. Unfortunately, guns, taxes, and abortions are popular issues precisely because they are so divisive. They are areas where the two parties can garner votes from large swaths of single-issue voters. The staunchly pro-life voter, for example, simply will not vote Democrat, no matter what else the Republican candidate might do — they would sooner sit out the election. I suspect the same is often true of single-issue voters on other issues, such as guns.
In the grand scheme of things, however, I think it’s going to take a colossal screw-up to get the GOP out of power. If they actually manage to overturn Roe v. Wade, that might just do it. Ditto if they manage to privatize social security, when the market inevitably takes a “correction.”
January 6th, 2005 at 5:50 pm
All the author said is that the Dems would “win” and of course they would gain more votes by picking off traditionally Republican voters. That means that we are talking about 150,000 votes in Ohio this year, or 537 in Florida in 2000 (or another small number in Al Gore’s Home State(tm)). Though it could sway more Democrats to vote Green instead.
In the same way, Republicans could be pro-gun control, and they too would probably guarantee themselves elections. (Unless lots of people switch to Libertarian or Constitution Party).