{"id":66192,"date":"2021-03-25T10:40:39","date_gmt":"2021-03-25T16:40:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=66192"},"modified":"2021-03-25T10:40:39","modified_gmt":"2021-03-25T16:40:39","slug":"66192","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=66192","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bearingarms.com\/camedwards\/2021\/03\/24\/growing-desperation-dangerousness-gun-control-n42543\">The Growing Desperation (And Dangerousness) Of The Gun Control Movement<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Gun control activists are growing increasingly frustrated with the fact that even with Democrats in control of the White House and both chambers of Congress, their agenda is still in doubt on Capitol Hill. A new piece at POLITICO highlights the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2021\/03\/24\/gun-reform-movement-opportunity-477740\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">palpable sense of desperation<\/a>\u00a0starting to emanate from anti-gun organizations like Everytown for Gun Safety and its affiliate Moms Demand Action, where activists know that their window of opportunity to put new restrictions on the right to keep and bear arms is closing. The razor-thin Democratic majority in the House and Senate could very well disappear after the 2022 midterms, and activists<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<section class=\"page-content__row page-content__row--story mobile-spacing\">\n<div class=\"container container--story story-layout--fluid-fixed\">\n<div class=\"container__column container__column--story\">\n<div class=\"container__row container__row--story story-layout--fixed-fluid\">\n<div class=\"container__column container__column--story center-horizontally\">\n<div class=\"story-text\">\n<p class=\" story-text__paragraph\">For the gun reform movement \u2014 a centerpiece of the Democratic Party\u2019s agenda for at least a quarter century \u2014 the question this week has become, if not now, when?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"container__column container__column--story hide-under-small\">\n<aside class=\"story-enhancement\">\n<div id=\"pol-02-wrap\" class=\"content-group ad \" aria-label=\"Advertisement\">\n<div id=\"pol-02\" class=\"ad-slot    \" aria-hidden=\"true\" data-ad-refresh=\"30\">\u201cThis is the moment,\u201d said Shannon Watts, founder of the advocacy group Moms Demand Action. \u201cThe NRA is sidelined by bankruptcy, and we have a gun-sense trifecta in the White House, the Senate and the House.\u201d<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section class=\"page-content__row page-content__row--story main-section\">\n<div class=\"container container--story story-layout--fixed-fluid\">\n<div class=\"container__column container__column--story\">\n<div class=\"container__row container__row--story story-layout--fluid-fixed\">\n<div class=\"container__column container__column--story center-horizontally\">\n<div class=\"story-text\">\n<p>\u2026 It\u2019s a pivotal moment for gun politics. The history of midterm elections suggests Democrats are at risk of losing the House next year, shrinking their window for legislative victories.<\/p>\n<p class=\" story-text__paragraph\" data-content-child-index=\"1-1\">\u201cThe time is definitely now,\u201d said Peter Ambler, executive director of the gun-control group Giffords. \u201cWe can\u2019t wait.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/blockquote>\n<section class=\"page-content__row page-content__row--story main-section\">\n<div class=\"container container--story story-layout--fixed-fluid\">\n<div class=\"container__column container__column--story\">\n<div class=\"container__row container__row--story story-layout--fluid-fixed\">\n<div class=\"container__column container__column--story center-horizontally\">\n<div class=\"story-text\">\n<p class=\" story-text__paragraph\" data-content-child-index=\"1-1\"><span style=\"color: #1a1a1a; font-size: 16px;\">There\u2019s a muddled message coming from the anti-gun advocates. On the one hand, they say that now is the time, knowing that they\u2019re likely to lose ground in next year\u2019s elections, but they\u2019re still trying to spin their movement as one that\u2019s growing in popularity across the country.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\" story-text__paragraph\" data-content-child-index=\"1-2\">Tom Sullivan, a Colorado state lawmaker who sought elected office after his son, Alex, was killed in the Aurora theater shooting in 2012, said the climate surrounding gun legislation has \u201cobviously\u201d shifted \u2014 as evidenced by his own election and those of other survivors of victims of gun violence, including Rep. Lucy McBath of Georgia, whose teenage son was shot to death in 2012. Gun control was a winning issue for Democrats in some congressional swing districts nationally in the midterm elections in 2018.<\/p>\n<p class=\" story-text__paragraph\" data-content-child-index=\"1-3\">\u201cWe can run on this issue, and we can win elections on this issue,\u201d Sullivan said. \u201cQuite obviously, the tone has changed.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"my-4\">\n<div id=\"div-gpt-300x250_5\" class=\"gpt-ad ad-250 text-center\" data-google-query-id=\"CNed9t_vy-8CFc2BpgQd7y8MTw\">\n<div id=\"google_ads_iframe_\/6177\/bearingarms\/articles\/300x250_5_0__container__\">Sullivan\u2019s comments ignore the fact that, despite spending tens of millions of dollars in states like Iowa, Minnesota, and Texas in an attempt to flip state legislatures into anti-gun majorities, the 2020 elections actually resulted in Republican gains at the state level. Republicans in Iowa just sent a Constitutional Carry bill to the desk of Gov. Kim Reynolds, and Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has called for (and is likely to receive) a Second Amendment Sanctuary measure from lawmakers in Austin.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p data-content-child-index=\"1-3\">At the federal level, Democrats and gun control activists lost ground in the House, and were it not for the absolute sh*tshow in the Georgia Senate runoffs, Republicans would still be in control of the U.S. Senate. The gun control movement didn\u2019t receive a mandate in the 2020 elections, but they have to act like they did because they know that they\u2019re likely to be in an even worse position after the midterms.<\/p>\n<p data-content-child-index=\"1-3\">In that sense, the gun control groups are right that this is the best position for the movement in decades, but that doesn\u2019t mean that they\u2019re still in a great position to get what they want. As long as it still takes 60 votes to pass most legislation through the Senate, the prospects for new gun control laws is murky at best. That\u2019s why you\u2019ll be seeing more calls from gun control groups to nuke the filibuster in the coming days and weeks.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p data-content-child-index=\"1-3\">The gun control debate has put more pressure on Democrats to abandon the legislative filibuster in the Senate, broadening the range of constituencies lobbying for the change. Lonnie Phillips, whose daughter was killed in Aurora and who now advocates on behalf of survivors of gun violence, said, \u201cThe best thing that can happen right now \u2014 the one thing I would give everything up for \u2014 is get rid of the filibuster so we can pass some laws.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p data-content-child-index=\"1-3\">If the filibuster goes away, the least of our worries will be the passage of gun control bills like H.R. 8 and H.R. 1446. At that point, Democrats would try to ram through Biden\u2019s gun ban and a host of new infringements on our Second Amendment rights, while also passing legislation like H.R. 1 that\u2019s designed to ensure a permanent Democratic majority in Congress. One party rule is completely antithetical to the very idea of the United States, and it would be nothing less than a legislative coup. I\u2019m not worried about my Second Amendment rights if the filibuster were to disappear. I\u2019m worried about the future of the nation itself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Growing Desperation (And Dangerousness) Of The Gun Control Movement Gun control activists are growing increasingly frustrated with the fact that even with Democrats in control of the White House and both chambers of Congress, their agenda is still in doubt on Capitol Hill. 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