.... the Democrats convention platform is focused on a radical gun control agenda. It advocates licensing for gun owners, allowing gun makers to be held liable whenever someone uses a gun to commit a crime or cause an accident, and banning some types of semi-automatic guns based on appearance rather than on function.
But the Senate wont just determine what gun control legislation gets passed it will also determine what judges get confirmed. And there are few issues that divide Democrat and Republican-appointed judges more consistently and completely than gun control.
The states Democrats control judicially are ones that they also tend to control legislatively. These circuit courts approve any and all of the gun control regulations that get passed, no matter how flagrantly they infringe on the right to keep and bear arms.
The Supreme Court isnt restraining these courts. All four Democrat appointees claim that people dont have a right to self-defense. Indeed, they have already noted they will vote to overturn the courts 2008 Heller and 2010 McDonald decisions, and one more Democratic appointment would give them the chance to do so. Those rulings merely ensured the government could not completely ban guns.
Four Republican-appointed justices clearly care about the right to self-defense. But they wont take up gun control cases for fear that Justice John Roberts will side with the liberal justices. He has already done so on cases concerning religious freedom, DACA, and Obamacare.
There are five states where the average of the latest polls show less than three percentage points separate the Republican and Democrat Senate candidates Iowa, Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, and Montana. All these states have traditionally had strong support for the right of self-defense. But the betting odds show the senate right now will end in a 50-50 tie, which means whoever wins the presidency will determine who controls the Senate.
... the NRA spent $18.9 million on all campaigns in 2018, New York billionaire Michael Bloomberg put up $110 million just for congressional campaigns. Bloomberg spent even more than that on state legislative races across the country.
After the recent rash of BLM and Antifa riots, does anybody seriously think police will be anywhere near when you need them?
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