Democrats Big Bet on Gun Control

By Ammoland

By Jeff Knox

Buckeye, AZ –-(Ammoland.com)- The shooting at Umqua Community College in Roseberg, Oregon last week, and its immediate politicization by President Obama, has revived gun control as a key issue among presidential candidates.

Shannon Watts, the public relations executive who runs Mike Bloomberg’s anti-rights subsidiary, Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America, told ABC News; “This is really a sea change in terms of how presidential candidates are talking about this, where they would not have in the past.”

“This is a big deal,” she said, “It was the third-rail of politics.”

Watts is right, this is a big deal, and what it’s doing is re-energizing that “third rail” which has been powered down somewhat for the past several years by a combination of duplicity and incompetence; duplicity on the part of anti-rights politicians who have actively moderated their rhetoric about gun control, and incompetence on the part of Republican leadership in pushing candidates who do not truly respect our right to arms. The result has been fewer obvious and vulnerable targets for GunVoters to actively oppose, and fewer solid pro-rights candidates for GunVoters to actively support. In short, by not having the issue prominently …Read the Rest

Source:: AmmoLand