What about Goldwater's loss disproves what I said? Did we not get a huge tax cut under Kennedy? How about this statement from a leading Dem in the '60's?
"Certainly one of the chief guarantees of freedom under any government, no matter how popular and respected, is the right of the citizens to keep and bear arms. This is not to say that firearms should not be carefully used and that definite safety rules of precaution should not be taught and enforced. But the right of the citizens to bear arms is just one guarantee against arbitrary government and one more safeguard against a tyranny which now appears remote in America, but which historically has proved to be always possible."
-- Senator Hubert H. Humphrey (1911-1978, D-MN), in "Know Your Lawmakers,"_Guns_magazine, February 1960, p.6
You brought out the tax cuts of Kennedy and Hubert Humphrey's defense of the 2nd amendment. Both were mainstays of Goldwater's platform and yet he went to a stinging defeat to LBJ.