K.Mooneyham wrote: ↑Mon Jul 25, 2022 11:23 am
jb2012 wrote: ↑Mon Jul 25, 2022 9:45 am
Jerry Nadler nuked this one in a recent committee debate by saying that they are “banning weapons in common use”. The three most recent supreme court cases involving the second amendment explicitly state that weapons in common use may not be restricted. It won’t pass the Senate, and even if it were, would be struck down by a higher court if not the supreme court, further solidifying the 2nd amendment. They are only shooting themselves in the foot with this one.
I think they know that things aren't going to turn out so well for them this fall, and they are trying to shore up their base of voters with stunts like these. This way, they can go their fundraisers and say "We tried to push through some 'common sense gun safety laws' but the evil Republicans stopped us. We need you to help us stay in office and fight for this stuff". That kind of political garbage is stock-in-trade for the Democrat Party.
And, hopefully, that will start to backfire on them. See Paladin's post today noting that new firearm purchases are up a massive 44% for Blacks and African Americans, and up 40% for Hispanics. What the demwits have automatically assumed as being cornerstones of their "base" is shifting...because people aren't stupid. You start throwing rampant crime and lack of prosecution in their faces, and it gets personal real fast.
The dems are even trying to imply that the disproportionate, by percentage of population, number of firearm homicides among Blacks is somehow due to burgeoning numbers of invisible white supremacists committing hate crimes. But guess when the number of law-abiding Blacks buying guns started to spike dramatically?
The
Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project (ACLED), a nonprofit organization that tracks conflict across the globe, documented 12,045 incidents of U.S. civil unrest from May 26, 2020, to September 5, 2020; 633 of those are coded as riots, included 47 fatalities, and occurred in 47 states causing well over $1.2 billion damage in pre-Biden-inflation dollars (probably equivalent to $1.32 billion now, less than just two years later). For those incidents where there is data about the participants' affiliation, BLM activists were involved in 95% of the riots.
It's about crime and lawlessness. It isn't about CRT or woke, radical left-wing politics. If someone hurts a family member or loots and burns down your business, you don't care if they're green or purple.
Remember Bill Clinton campaigning with the slogan, "It's the economy, stupid." Well, the far left have presented conservatives a plethora of campaign points that I hope they use well. "It's the terrible economy with inflation at a 40-year high; it's rampant crime with felons being released on low or no PR bond; it's open borders with tracked encounters (not counting unknowns and got-aways) for the past 9 months (1,746,119) exceeding the previous 12 months combined (the 12-month fiscal year 2020 totaled 458,088 by comparison); it's faulty management of international relations from Afghanistan to Ukraine to Saudi Arabia to Iran to China to North Korea; it's a literal war on U.S. energy that is steering us toward a 1970s-like energy crisis; and it's a feckless White House having the lowest approval ratings imaginable with almost 60% of all Americans specifically disapproving of the president;
almost a third of his own party's registered voters think he sucks."
I think we should having something to work with there in the midterms.
