Forbes: Hillary Clinton’s Gun Control Jihad Will Hurt Her in the General Election

By Robert Farago

With last night’s electoral victories, Hillary Clinton remains the Democratic Party’s presumptive presidential nominee. Barring cataclysmic legal troubles relating to her illegal emails or damning information about illegal activities recovered from deleted files — and maybe even then — Ms. Clinton will be asking the nation to elect her President. She will have to do so as a gun control crusader. Drawing on recent history, Forbes contributor Frank Miniter reckons her public embrace of civilian disarmament will hurt her chances . . .

In 2004, presidential candidates tramped around rural states thumping their chests and boasting they’ve gutted more deer and bagged more pheasants than their rivals, and anti-gun Congressmen suddenly became gun-shy. Just four years before, then-candidate Vice President Al Gore, in an interview in Outdoor Life magazine, wouldn’t even answer my questions, “Do you hunt? Do you fish?” As the 2004 election neared Senator John Kerry made sure a camera caught him when he went pheasant hunting.

Such things would not have occurred just a few years earlier. Kerry even answered my questions for an Outdoor Life sportsmen’s voter article by saying he owned an “assault weapon,” a boast that was used …Read the Rest

Source:: Truth About Guns