Posted on 11/07/2019 5:48:06 PM PST by PROCON
With anti-gun legislative majorities in place for the first time in nearly 30 years in Virginia, gun control groups are feeling pretty confident and cocky at the moment. So cocky, in fact, that they’re going to try to flip Texas in 2020.
“We sent a message to the NRA in their own backyard,” said former congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, who launched a gun violence prevention group after she was shot at a rally in Tucson in 2011. “We are turning the page on an era where legislators cashed gun lobby checks while communities lived in fear of shootings.”
Next on Giffords’ list is Texas, where the group has had recent success helping Democrats. The group spent more than $1 million on TV ads in Houston in 2018, supporting U.S. Rep. Lizzie Fletcher, a Democrat who unseated longtime Republican Congressman John Culberson. The ads went after Culberson for taking money from the NRA and voting for weaker gun laws.
Groups like Giffords have “targets up and down the ballot in Texas in 2020,” said Peter Ambler, the group’s executive director. They include everything from the U.S. Senate race to congressional seats and state House districts — especially in the suburbs.
“Texas is going to be a big priority of ours,” Ambler said.
As I said before Election Day, Virginia’s elections on Tuesday were a canary in the coal mine for gun owners around the country. Now that gun control activists think that they’ve got a winning message to target suburban legislative and congressional districts, they’ll be using that playbook from coast to coast in 2020, even in states where it seems like the right to keep and bear arms is a bedrock part of the culture. Places like Texas, in other words.
Moms Demand Action, another group advocating for stricter gun laws, has already vowed that its volunteers will be out in full force in Texas next year supporting candidates — including three former Moms Demand Action volunteers who are running for seats in the state House: Becca De Felice in San Antonio and Jennifer Skidonenko and Paige Dixon in North Texas.
Giffords says its success helping Fletcher flip her Houston seat is evidence of what the group can do outside of Virginia.
“Even that was a sign of the times,” Ambler said. “The idea that a gun safety organization would, in the state of Texas, be able to go into the Houston media market and run negative ads against a Republican incumbent based on his connections to the NRA would have been thought impossible just a few years ago. The changing nature of Texas’ big, big suburbs and cities is really driving these shifts.”
I think turning Texas’ legislature into an anti-gun body might be a stretch for the gun control groups, but what do they have to lose besides money with their attempt? They believe they have a winning message in the suburban swing districts, so why not try to make in-roads in the Lone Star State. In 2020, gun owners can’t take any state for granted, not even Second Amendment stalwarts like Texas. We’re in for a national fight in next year’s elections, and there is really no safe state when it comes to the threat to our right to keep and bear arms.
Ping.
It’s just political grandstanding. The Dems have a razon-thin 21-19 majority in the VA State Senate, with Democrats in there from red areas. Fact is they don’t have the votes to pass anything too crazy.
I get they’re enjoying their propaganda victory about winning in a blue state with a GOP incumbent in the White House because “it’s the NRA’s backyard,” but let’s see how smug they are in 2021. If Trump loses, I think you’re looking at a red wave in Virginia that year.
Let me take you on a trip back in time, early '80's, when my very conservative state of Washington first started getting Californicated.
We had some of the strongest pro-2nd Amendment laws in the country, including a preemption law against local jurisdictions usurping state gun laws.
The invading communists packed the state supreme court, (through pure voting numbers in the Seattle area), with like-minded liberal activist judges and in just the past few years, this court found that city gun and ammo taxes and other blatant usurping of the 2nd Amendment and like state constitution statutes was somehow 'Not Unconstitutional'.
And now, just as in California, our communist Governor and Attorney General are pushing 'assault rifle' and 'large' capacity' magazine bans.
Don't think it can't happen in the great state of Texas, it can, stay vigilant!
My once conservative state already fell to the Communists.
Don't think it can't happen in Texas.
“Don’t think it can’t happen in the great state of Texas, it can, stay vigilant!”
Certainly worth staying vigilant! But still, one of the reasons that Leftists from California don’t come here as much as because we’re hayseeds and hicks...particularly compared to states like Washington, Colorado, Oregon, for example. But I’m just looking at numbers...and I don’t see the threat being anymore credible than their threat in 2014, when they ran the Abortion Barbie for governor...only to lose by the usual 20 points.
Even in California where the Dems have a super majority there are limits to what they can do.
Lots of their Hispanic voters are gun owners and they can’t afford to piss them off. Not to mention eventually the Feds/SC will stop them if they go to far.
Still CA gun control laws are pretty extreme compared to the rest of the country and it doesn’t stop crime in the least bit.
Come and take them you SOBs!!! I FREAKN DARE YOU!!!
Not going to happen.
Candidate Party Votes Pct.
Greg Abbott* Republican 4,656,196 55.8%
Lupe Valdez Democrat 3,546,615 42.5
Mark Tippetts Libertarian 140,632 1.7
8,343,443 votes, 100% reporting (7,949 of 7,949 precincts)
Around here a lot of the progs are concealed carry.
They may sing that song but they are not going to vote for gun bans.
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Liberals from Cali or anywhere else live in cities here-especially Austin and parts of Houston they do not live in small towns, or even the farthest burbs-they certainly don’t live in places like this remote area-they are simply not liked/tolerated and are made to feel unwelcome, if they do move here-in a year or so they are gone-the Amish call it shunning-if you are not liked at all by your neighbors up the road, you will not have any help when you are in a tight spot-and the VFD might not get to your place fast if a fire starts, since all the firefighters are some of those neighbors.
Besides not being liked or helped by neighbors, if they are unarmed, like libs usually are, they are in deep s*** if the unthinkable happens-because of the distances, EMS and the sheriff’s deputies are at least 15-30 minutes away in good weather-much longer if there is a flood, ice or snow on the hilly, narrow country roads. There are so few libs/democrats out here now that there is no democrat party in the whole county-nor a dem who ran for local office in nearly 20 years-we like it that way...
It is a good non-violent way to keep dems/liberals out-some enterprising people in the big cities should adopt being clannish like us...
Oops-posted too fast-I also meant that post for you, too...
Don't think it can't happen in Texas.
Texas is a tough nut to crack, partly because the state legislature meets only every other year. Takes some of the steam out of these "urgent" political issues.
I wish the GOP fought this hard. We definitely should be trying the same tactics in Nevada and New Hampshire. We used to win these easily. We need to take back our states. We as a party literally watched Virginia go blue. It’s not like everyone was clueless this was happening.
They consider possession by private citizens to be illegal...methinks it is getting close to opening up a huge can of Molon Labe on their ....
[[[We as a party literally watched Virginia go blue. It’s not like everyone was clueless this was happening.]]]
I heard there were something like forty slots that were unopposed by the GOP in VA?
Trump is really showing how the GOP can win and they are not listening yet. They were all for the big tent until Trump used it to win.
I live in the Houston areas, and Lizzie Fletcher did not win via a gun-grabbing campaign. Her ads were very slick, she was a nice-lookning (though plump) young woman, and Culberson came off as an aging fat-cat career politician (he was in office for 9 terms, I believe). Her ads ran almost non-stop, so the 'rats obviously out-spent Culberson, but I don't remember Culberson's "voting for weak gun laws" as a major issue in her campaign.
Nooooooo.....
But not surprised. PING
Simpler, albeit slower, than a shooting war... Invaders from within and invaders from without destroying a nation...
From the outside: Latinos and moslems have been, until lately, pouring by the millions across the Nation's borders or through welcoming immigration policies for years... Once here they soak taxpayers money out of the economy, all the while spawning more millions of invaders to dilute and destroy the Nation...
From the inside: Californians have been invading NV, CO, WY, MT, OR, & WA for years... Unfortunately it is mostly the socialists maggots who leave CA and go elsewhere and vote to create another version of CA wherever they go...
Also from the inside are New Yorkers who have been invading VA, NC, FL, NJ, CT & PA bringing their socialist politics and crime with them... As usual they end up voting to create another version of NY wherever they go...
As if that isn't enough, MA socialists have been invading NH & ME for years and, as usual, voting for the same failed socialist agenda in their new state...
All of this (from within & without) can be referred to as conquest by infestation...
Just like the jurisdictions whereassive gin control has already happened, it is unlikely there will be real pushback in most places, as most Americans will ultimately cave in, to keep their current fat paychecks, family, and lifestyles intact.
“jurisdictions where large scale gun control has already happened...”
Hopefully stays fixed this time.
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