Democrats for the 2nd

About time! I hope all three members encounter success in their efforts. Their efforts in support of RKBA, that is. About 90 percent of the rest of the Democrats' party platform is pure unadulterated evil. As opposed to about 85 percent of the Republican party platform.
 
I used to be a democrat, active at the local level.
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I can't take these folks seriously, and neither will the democratic party. There is no democratic national voice calling for an end to new gun control laws. The only contact for this site is a P.O. box. I think three members would be an overestimate.
 
I recall seeing a Dems for 2nd site two years ago which had at least two dozen good article by several authors. Pro-gun Dems do exist...till they figure out what guns are for and switch parties.
 
I've read there are more Democrats who are members of the NRA than Republicans. A plurality of the members are "independent".
 
I'm one of them. Here in my part of WV, locally dems outnumber repubs 5 to 1. IF you want to get anything done locally, you have to go democrat. But if you think I'm voting dem for pres, you're sadly mistaken.




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Here in the Great State of the South
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we have, for decades, experienced life with Dems that support the 2nd. It's not as prevalent as it used to be. It's not as popular as it used to be either as guns are demonized as evil and that conflicts with efforts to get reelected.

It's also a strain on your own sense of reality to support someone for office who is pretty much a dimwit on every thing except the 2nd. I, myself, wonder if all those years of supporting the 2nd (by those pols) wasn't just to get votes in the first place.
 
Ever since John Dingel, NRA BOARD MEMBER, voted for the "assault weapons" ban, the idea of "Democrats for the Second amendment" strikes me as a sick joke. I barely believe in the existance of "Republicans for the Second amendment".

And they never did get around to explaining to us lowly members what "pressure" was applied to Dingel to get him to vote for a bill he'd denounced mere hours earlier as "an obnoxious assault on our rights under the Second amendment".

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Big Al, Here in my part of WV we have the same problem. My rep Alan Mollohan is very pro gun and he will get my vote every time. Voting Republican in all other cases except a couple at the local level. Hey, there are no Republican candidates here!
 
Back in my home state of Hawaii, the GOP tended to be very unreliable about the RKBA. There are exceptions, like a guy named Sam Slom who brought John Lott out to the Islands to testify to the legislature about CCWs.
On the other hand, when there was a threat to ban handgun sales, a Democrat named Terrece Tom was instrumental in protecting our gun rights. The Hawaii Rifle Assoc. supported the Dem. incumbent for governor, Cayetano, over thee GOP challenger, Lingle, because she was so wimpy about gun rights. She later went on to support the mandatory re-registration scheme and "safe-storage."
Don't get me wrong: I'm a libertarian Republican through-and-through. But I'll support a blue-dog, old-school, pro-RKBA Dem. any day over a wishy-washy, anti-gun, Rockefeller Republican.
 
There's one advantage that an anti-gun Republican has over a pro-gun Democrat.

Let me first elaborate that gun rights in the US are protected via UN-DEMOCRATIC means. Of course, the bill of rights is undemocratic, it lists things that even a majority can't infringe upon.

Sooner or later the pro-gun people have to face that, due to media working upon people who know nothing about guns, pro-gun people, and ultimately the people who oppose confiscation, will be a very small minority, as in Australia. 90+% of people will eventually (strongly) support the buybacks "for the public good".

Even amongst republicans, very few are pro-gun. However, a republican majority with an old southern incumbent can sabotage bills in committee quite effectively. Okay, Orrin Hatch is FAAAAAAAAAR from perfect; but he's a dang sight better than Hillary Clinton when it comes to busting up gun bills in committee.

Again, we are subverting the "democratic" side of it, even though we are ultimately in the right. If the "ban baby-killing guns and save children's lives" bill actually gets in front of people, it's a brave political soul who won't sign it. The trick is to make sure it doesn't come to a vote.

As bad as Orrin Hatch is at times, an anti-gun republican will put him in a position to trash bills before they come to a vote - whatever he's screwed up, it's better than having Feinstein in his place as a pro-gun Democrat would cause.

Don't think every man in the room would not ultimately support a "gun buyback" Australia style. It would have to come after licencing and registration, where a licenced/registered weapon is used to kill a bunch of people, and if you think the outcry from the average person against "guns" is bad just wait until they're demonized a little more. By that stage the NRA will have given up "self defense" as a reason to own guns, and they'll just be appeasing a few bolt-action target shooters.

just my humble opinion,

Battler.
 
Democrats for the 2nd amendment is an oxymoron. The Democratic party is the sworn enemy of the second amendment by any measure. Now go out and act like the 5th columnist that your party leadership obviously thinks you are. You have a lot of work to do before you are likely to reverse the direction of the party leadership or for that matter the average party comrade.
 
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