How Dems Think Gun Control Can Defeat Trump In 2020

By Tom Knighton

It’s no secret that the Democrats want to retake the White House. It’s the mission of every political party not in the White House. Of course, third parties don’t have a shot in hell at it, but the Democrats do. At least in theory.

Unsurprisingly, they seem to believe gun control is an issue they can win with.

In the wake of mass shootings in Ohio and Texas — the latter of which was tied to a suspect whose anti-immigrant sentiments led to the killing of 22 people — candidates are road-testing a withering argument that draws a direct line between gun violence and the president’s racist rhetoric.

Note the lack of bias in that last sentence? [/sarcasm] Anyway…

But Democrats this year, more so than during the last presidential election, have been buoyed on gun control by gains in statehouses last year, by an internal weakening of the NRA and by a groundswell of youth activism following the school shooting in Parkland, Fla., in 2018.

“To me, the tipping point was first of all Parkland, and you could see those results in the midterm, where those kids didn’t just march, they actually voted,” Sen. Amy Klobuchar told reporters here. “And then …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms