Democratic candidates gathered in Sin City and went all in on gun control. Granted, it wasn’t hard to do when the event was sponsored by gun control groups Giffords and March for Our Lives and the table dealer was a left wing cable news network that didn’t even gamble their own ratings by putting it on their network. They live-streamed on the web instead.
If you missed it, I don’t blame you. Still, there’s some big election-year ideas they’re betting on.
Bans
The field split on outright confiscation. They must have noticed that U.S. Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) isn’t at the table anymore after he championed the idea. Former Congressman Robert Francis “Beto” O’Rourke continued to double down, offering up a poll that says the majority of Americans support a “mandatory buyback” (read: confiscation). I’ll take action on the bet they didn’t ask the more than 16 million modern sporting rifles owned by law- abiding Americans. Those are the semiautomatic AR-15 rifles they vilify, different from the rifle employed by the military. O’Rourke isn’t the only one betting on this. U.S. Sens. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) and Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) want in too.
CARTOONS | CHIP BOK VIEW CARTOON Every Democratic candidate believes banning an entire class of firearms – the modern sporting rifle – is a winning hand. Mayor Pete Buttigieg (D-Ind.) told reporters following the event that labeling the semiautomatic rifle as a “weapon of war” – which is different from the military M-16 and M-4 – isn’t misleading. Buttigieg said he supports banning the sale of “assault weapons, like what I carried in Afghanistan.” Don’t bet on black on this one, Mayor Pete. They’re different firearms.
Register
Candidates offered differing plans to regulate ownership. Former Vice President Joe Biden let it roll on his recently released gun control plan that forces AR-15 owners to sell their rifles to the government or register them under the National Firearms Act, which would require registration, tax stamps, fingerprints and a government tracking for every modern sporting rifle. But wait, there’s more. Biden wants to include magazines too.
#1: Stoner To: WWG1WWA (#0)
I hope every anti 2nd amendment politician, R & D, this next election is voted out of office, and that they have to live under a bridge, and eat out of garbage cans !!!
Stoner posted on 2019-10-07 10:03:56 Reply Private Reply
#2: Tooconservative To: WWG1WWA (#0)
A little lame that I had to search out confirmation that it was streamed on MSNBC. Not very good reporting really.
It does bring to mind the previous global hotting conference the Dem prez wannabes attended on September 23. I think that one lasted 8 hours but was broadcast on CNN, I think.
It reminds me of how the Dems in 2016 almost hid their debates from the public, choosing to schedule them at times that virtually guaranteed that almost no one would be watching. Like Saturday nights or on Monday/Thursday nights against NFL football games.
It seems to me that the Dems are trying to appeal to their activist base with this stuff but are keeping it quiet with the rest of the Dem and indy voters. So their candidates can fly their freak flags now and still pretend to be moderates later, when some of them (Beto) go back home to run for Senate in 2020. Or become a VP candidate or the Dem nominee.
Polling consistently shows that very few people outside a small group of Luddite radicals in the Dem party give two craps about climate change. So the Dems are trying to capture those radicals for their votes in the primary but keep it on the down-low with the rest of the voters.
Tooconservative posted on 2019-10-07 14:29:55 Reply Private Reply
#3: Hondo68 To: WWG1WWA (#0)
The dem candidates are trying to jump on President Donnell's gun control wagon.
Too little, too late. Donnell is public enemy #1 and will remain so until he's defeated in 2020.
Hondo68 posted on 2019-10-07 16:51:04 Reply Private Reply
#4: Tooconservative To: Hondo68 (#3)
Unfortunately, even they aren't stupid enough to fall for his little trick.
Trump wanted to encourage them to pass something insane, get them all on record in the House, send it to the Senate to put all those Dems on record.
It would almost certainly fall apart before it got out of the Senate but Trump, true to form, refused all along to say exactly what he would and would not sign. Because he would veto anything restrictive and hang it around the Dems' necks.
Every gungrabbing vote you can get from any Dem in Congress is worth at least $1 million to the RNC. In the Senate, $2 million per Dem.
Tooconservative posted on 2019-10-07 18:50:28 Reply Private Reply