Posted on 05/19/2016 7:55:33 PM PDT by jazusamo
LOUISVILLE — Gun rights backers lament what they describe as a leftward drift on Second Amendment rights by Democrats in recent years, and predicted the push for stricter laws in blue state bastions such as California and Illinois will cost them even more independent-minded voters.
Within the last decade, Democrats, including then-Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, were making overtures to gun groups including the National Rifle Association.
But the 2012 Newtown school shooting spurred a realignment, with Democrats at the national level increasingly adopting a gun control posture, pushing gun rights Democrats to suppress their own views, said attendees at the National Rifle Association’s annual convention, which kicked off Thursday in Louisville.
“They have shifted. Oh, heavens yes I’d say the last eight years,” said Sandy Jarrett, a 60-year-old retiree from Troy, Ohio. “You go back to Kennedy and all the other Democrats — they were pro-gun. There was never an issue.”
That’s in stark contrast to people like President Obama and likely Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, who talk about having to “kill the guns,” she said.
The lineup at this week’s NRA convention underscores the lopsidedness of the debate. Likely GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump is a featured speaker, as are Republican governors from Indiana and Kentucky, both Republican U.S. senators from Kentucky, Republican Sen. Jeff Sessions of Alabama and GOP Rep. Trey Gowdy of South Carolina.
Among Democrats, meanwhile, the featured speaker at the NRA lobbying arm’s “Leadership Forum” on Friday is Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, Sheriff David A. Clarke Jr., who’s carved a niche as a pro-gun rights Democrat. He addressed the convention in 2015 too.
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There is nothing centrist left in the rat party...
Communist
Dictator
anti-gun
anti-god
baby killers
The term “useful idiots” comes to mind.
Yes, I hope they will all vote for Trump and Republican candidates in the general election. After all, the Dem party is now standing against the US Constitution.
Yes, I hope they will all vote for Trump and Republican candidates in the general election. After all, the Dem party is now standing against the US Constitution.
Notice how the staunchest supporters of gun control tend to have serious ethical and/or legal problems themselves? Hillary Clinton, FMR NY Assy speaker Sheldon Silver, who’s about to do some time, Charles Rangel, to name a few. There is nothing new under the sun! One of the first gun control regs, the infamous Sullivan Laws in N.Y. passed in 1911. What the gun grabbers don’t tell you is WHO these laws are named for. Big Tim Sullivan, a Tammany hall operative even more corrupt than Hilary. He wanted to make the streets of NYC safer, for him and his cronies, not to mention the muggers and gangsters in his back pocket. About 25 years ago the Gun Violence Death Clock was put up near Times Square to “raise awareness” of our so-called gun culture that’s “killing our children.” It was funded by Robert Brennan, a junk bond dealing scam artist who makes Bernie Madoff look like Mother Theresa. He did time in Club Fed for securities fraud and other such niceties. I’m sure he had a pragmatic reason for performing this “community service”. Hey if I scammed all those old folks out of their life savings, I too would be scared sh!tless if they, their kids or grandkids had easy access to firearms. Just sayin
Pro-gun Democrats silenced as party veers left on Second Amendment>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Translation: Pro gun democrats rally for Trump vote!
Amen...There’s still conservative Dems out there and their party has abandoned them.
And then there’s this anti gun Democrat...
Ex-California State Sen. Leland Yee, a gun control champion, was sent to prison this year for weapons trafficking.
Full Automatic weapons, no less.
The Clinton’s went after guns early in their first term and they got WAXED in the 94 mid term. I remember the Rat’s quivering in fear of the ‘gun lobby’ after that beat down.
Baby killing, Nazi gun grabbers. They can all KMA. This is America. As long as there is freedom, we will ALWAYS have guns and as long as Americans have guns, there will ALWAYS be freedom.
Bernie is from a very pro gun state and I think Bernie is as pro gun as democrats go.
...fmr DEMOCRAT Cali Sen Leland Yee (responsible for several onerous gun control bills and then laws in Cali) is currently in prison...
...for 5 years...
...for (excerpted from Wiki)...
...public corruption and gun trafficking — specifically buying automatic firearms and shoulder-launched missiles from the Moro Islamic Liberation Front...
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I can think of better things to do with a MILF than buy guns from her.
Bart “stupid” stupak proved there are no moderate dimocrats.
LeeLand Yee, his right hand man, Shrimp Boy Chow (I swear that’s his name!) got convicted one some counts of racketeering and murder, hasn’t been sentenced yet. Yeah, we need “sensible” gun laws.
Actually, Yee was sentenced to 5 years in slams. Should be there as of a couple of months ago.
search terms...leland yee sentencing
That was a generation ago.
The donks have a whole new crop of drooling idiots in their corner now, and it looks like they're going to try again. They're going full "Australia" this time.
Many tens of millions of new guns were sold during Obama’s tenure. It wasn’t just republican buyers and nobody bought guns and then wished for more gun control.
You can’t have dem control and 2A rights. They are not compatible.
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