Reason: Hillary Picks a Doomed Fight on Gun Rights

[Kirk Freeman]

Interesting read from Reason. As Hillary runs off to tilt at windmills, reality is ready to push back.

Hillary Clinton Picks a Doomed Fight With Americans Over Guns - Reason.com

 

[rob63]

Interesting read from Reason. As Hillary runs off to tilt at windmills, reality is ready to push back.

Hillary Clinton Picks a Doomed Fight With Americans Over Guns - Reason.com

Unfortunately, reality never seems to be a deterrent to the political class.

 

[BiscuitNaBasket]

If clinton threatened to bypass congress and impose her own will and opinion on US citizens through presidential powers over any other amendment like she wants to do to the 2nd, we'd be rioting.

 

[Twangbanger]

So - all this time on the speaking circuit caused her to forget what a "midterm" is? To be fair, I guess 1994 does seem like an eternity ago...when you've spent 20 years cashing checks from bankers.

Sigh...looks like we'll need a refresher.

 

[actaeon277]

Some good commensurate after the article.

 

[Leadeye]

She's short on liberal flags to wave and this is an old one. Being increasingly perceived as the candidate of big money needs to be offset by her handlers in some way. Gun owners aren't voting for her anyway and with people like her the world breaks down into two groups, enemies and tools.

 

[Twangbanger]

...Gun owners aren't voting for her anyway...

Eh, they vote for people like R. Paul...same diff. Obama & Slick Willie got two terms apiece. Somehow, we seem to find a way to ventilate our foot.

 

[KittySlayer]

Hillary and her ilk are so used to lying and then having the spin masters finesse it and the voters forget. They pander to whatever audience is listening at the moment and forget that each word is captured on video. Wonder what she promised the folks at those quarter million dollar speeches. Ultimately if that evil witch sits in the Oval Office chair the ramifications will be beyond anything she has said in public.

So if she gets called on the carpet by a group of liberal gun owners who don't rank 2A at the top of their Wish List she'll just apologize, spin it and say it was for the children. Then they will line up and vote for her, hoping for the best and believing her lies.

"How you could say you are going to put a lot of coal miners out of jobs, and then come in here and tell us how you’re going to be our friend?" unemployed coal worker Bo Copely asked Clinton at a campaign event on May 2.

Clinton acknowledged that she said something to that effect, but she also apologized.

While she got her butt handed to her in West Virginia this week you can bet this fall the Union will give its marching orders and bring in the membership votes in exchange for whatever token the Union bosses are promised.

 

[Twangbanger]

...youu can bet this fall the Union will give its marching orders and bring in the membership votes in exchange for whatever token the Union bosses are promised.

I share your distaste for her, but think the actual method employed will be different. She knows she's not getting the coal miners. But she isn't trying to; she just needs to do enough to keep them from going to Trump. Her team will dig up something Trump said in 1977 equally offensive to coal miners, then blast the airwaves with it. If she can just neutralize those people into staying home and not voting Trump, she has won.

Stanley Greenberg has been telling dems for two election cycles: YOU DON'T NEED WORKING CLASS WHITES TO WIN. You just need to dig enough opposition dirt to neutralize as many of them as possible into staying home.

 

[Jiezh1]

hope she won't prevail...

 

[The Meach]

If clinton threatened to bypass congress and impose her own will and opinion on US citizens through presidential powers over any other amendment like she wants to do to the 2nd, we'd be rioting.

I swear, if she wins the election i'm starting an office pool on how long till Texas secedes.

 

[HoughMade]

Eh, they vote for people like R. Paul...same diff. Obama & Slick Willie got two terms apiece. Somehow, we seem to find a way to ventilate our foot.

Guns or not, Democrats are for the working man. The union told me so.

 

[87iroc]

If clinton threatened to bypass congress and impose her own will and opinion on US citizens through presidential powers over any other amendment like she wants to do to the 2nd, we'd be rioting.

Kind of like we have with Obama?

 

[actaeon277]

Guns or not, Democrats are for the working man. The union told me so.

Told me the same.
They were strangely silent when I asked for specifics.

 

[KittySlayer]

Told me the same.
They were strangely silent when I asked for specifics.

Just pay your dues, stop thinking and shut up. We'll tell you what you need to know and what you should do.

 

[NIGHTRIDER]

Guns or not, Democrats are for the working man. The union told me so.

That must be true.....my Union tells me that every time they raise my dues.

 

[KLB]

Told me the same.
They were strangely silent when I asked for specifics.

You don't have your "Fire Pence" and "Hire Gregg" signs in your yard?

 

[actaeon277]

You don't have your "Fire Pence" and "Hire Gregg" signs in your yard?

I put no one's sign in my yard.

 

[actaeon277]

You don't have your "Fire Pence" and "Hire Gregg" signs in your yard?

I put no one's sign in my yard.

Let me expand on that.
I hate political signs in the yard.
To me, it cheapens everything about the political system, which is saying something.
Here vote for this guy cause I will.
Or is it, here vote for this guy because you can see he has more signs in more yards.

 

[Bfish]

Guns or not, Democrats are for the working man. The union told me so.

This is the truth, being around Union guys all of the time this gets me, and them beyond fired up!