Jerome Bigge
Jul 21, 2017 · 1 min read

If Democrats didn’t support gun control, a lot of gun owners wouldn’t vote Republican. It’s highly unlikely that religious fundamentalists would ever vote Democrat, but Democratic support of gun control has handed the Republicans millions of votes that they wouldn’t otherwise have. The NRA membership numbers in the millions. And a lot of them vote. So who do you want them to vote for. Apparently the Democratic Party is quite willing to encourage them to vote Republican. Which why Donald Trump is President.

Note here that the old time Democrats were strong supporters of the Second Amendment. JFK was one. Remember too that a lot of unionized workers back then went deer hunting every fall. They probably had a handgun tucked away in a bed table drawer. My father did, as did my grandfather.

The Clintons were in favor of gun control and they lost Congress in 1994. Thus dooming the excellent Clinton Health Plan of 1993 that was in every way far superior to Obama’s ACA passed in 2010. We could have this very excellent health care plan. One modelled on successful European plans. Instead of the ACA, which was the creation of the Republican Heritage “think tank”.

If the Democratic Party wants to win elections, stop supporting ideas that only turn Democratic gun owners into Republicans.

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