A Third Rail No More: Incoming House Democrats Embrace Gun Control

[workinclasszero]

November 13, 20185:00 AM ET

The deadly mass shooting at a bar in Thousand Oaks, Calif., last week came less than a day after dozens of Democrats who campaigned on promises to strengthen gun laws were elected to the House of Representatives. Across the country, candidates from Virginia, Georgia, Texas and Washington State bluntly called for more gun safety, seemingly emboldened to take on the NRA.

In total, 95 candidates endorsed by Giffords PAC won seats in the House. Giffords PAC is the gun-violence prevention group founded by former Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and her husband.

Everytown for Gun Safety, the gun control group founded by former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, pointed to equally successful results — an 83 percent win rate among its 66 endorsements in federal races.

Both groups insist that in contests where they took on incumbents supported by the NRA, they were more successful than the powerful gun lobby.

https://www.npr.org/2018/11/13/666595118/a-third-rail-no-more-incoming-house-democrats-embrace-gun-control?utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=politics

[ananda]

2. Good!

Make the Reeps vote on this ... on record!

[hack89]

3. The Senate is where gun control legislation goes to die.

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as long as we depend on Dem Senators from red/purple states for any majority. That's what happened after Sandy Hook - the Dems held the Senate and Harry Reid killed gun control.

[workinclasszero]

4. So we put up the legislation that the majority want and the GOP Senate shoots it down

It will give the American voters a clear choice in 2020 huh?

[hack89]

5. But a Dem Senate will also shoot it down.

that's my point.

[workinclasszero]

6. But the journey is started

The American people want common sense gun control.

Is it going to happen tomorrow? No.

But its gonna happen.

All of the dems just elected that are rated F by the NRA terrorist org are proof of that!

[gratuitous]

7. I know it's just semantics, but . . .

Can we call it "firearm regulation" (to track with the language of the Second Amendment) rather than "gun control" (which is the preferred language of the terrorist organization that wants to keep Americans shooting each other)?

[bluecollar2]

8. Common sense gun control

Is an effective argument...

With emphasis on the words " common sense"

Responsible firearms owners aren't afraid of open and honest discussion...Democratic candidates shouldn't be either.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

9. This issue was barely mentioned during the 2018 campaigns

Health care seemed to be number one, education and economy a little less.

Maybe in 2020 we find out if Gun Control is a third rail.

I hope they can focus on Health, Education, Economy. Priorities.

[workinclasszero]

10. Yeah because the every other day mass killings in America

are nothing to get excited about eh?

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

11. I hear you, but that third rail may still hold a nasty charge.

What level of gun control will stop mass shootings?

[Azathoth]

12. Gun control is what derailed Obama's second term

The GOP were reeling after their "unskewed polls" bubble burst in 2012 and there were serious rumblings from the moderates that maybe now was the time to compromise on something like immigration. Then Newtown happened, and Obama got bullied into putting every last ounce of his reelection momentum into an all-out push for gun control. That rallied the GOP, they stood firm, Democrats were utterly defeated and Obama never recovered the initiative.