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Saturday, January 3, 2015

Obama’s Organizing for Action Says They’re ‘Winning’ the Fight Against Pro-Second Amendment Groups

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Have the Democrats suffered a break from reality?
 
I bet you didn’t know this, but according to Barack Obama’s advocacy team, they are fighting the NRA and other Second Amendment groups and winning. 

Not since Charlie Sheen’s “Winning” tirades has that word been so misapplied.
 
Modern Democrats have developed an interesting, and alarming, way to cope with the continued sputtering of their national agenda. As Obamacare continues to fail, President Obama and his cohorts repeatedly act as if nothing is wrong with the preposterously unsustainable socialized medicine overhaul and assure the American people that they want Obamacare.
 
After November’s massive defeat where Republicans made tremendous gains on the national and state levels, one would have expected President Obama to humbly note that America’s message was heard loud and clear: stop with the radical agenda.
 
Instead, he has doubled-down and even stirred the pot more by acting as a dictator and unilaterally granting amnesty to millions of criminals. 
Now, in what may be the most laughable assertion of all, Organizing for Action (OFA), Barack Obama’s advocacy team, has announced that in 2014, those seeking to undermine the Second Amendment are winning their fight against freedom.
 
In a tweet, OFA shared an article entitled, “Going Head to Head with the Gun Lobby (and Winning).” 
The included article notes:
 
The fight to reduce gun violence in this country is a long one. It’s one of the most frustrating, heartbreaking issues we work on.
 
But 2014 brought reason to hope.
 
In Washington state, OFA supporters and volunteers teamed up with partners on the ground to support a ballot initiative that would expand background checks for gun sales.
 
And even though the NRA and other groups did what they always do—spend millions to defeat us—our side won.
 
Sure- the notoriously-liberal Washington State passed an unconstitutional anti-gun law that is so unenforceable, to demonstrate this fact, thousands of gun owners assembled at the capital to openly defy the law. 
Secondly, it should be noted that Washington State was all but abandoned by any serious money from the NRA due to the fact that the bigger fish was defeating anti-Second Amendment candidates nationwide; as such, gun control candidates fared very poorly in the midterms.
 
To hammer this point home, Breitbart broke-down the races and explained how anti-gun candidates fared: 
In Texas, NRA-endorsed gubernatorial candidate Greg Abbott (R) won. In Maryland, NRA-endorsed gubernatorial candidate Larry Hogan (R) won. In Alabama, NRA-endorsed Governor Robert J. Bentley (R) won. In Wisconsin, NRA-endorsed Governor Scott Walker (R) won. In Michigan, NRA-endorsed Governor Rick Snyder (R) won. In Nevada, NRA-endorsed Governor Brian Sandoval (R) won. In Ohio, NRA-endorsed Governor John R. Kasich (R) won. In Oklahoma, NRA-endorsed Governor Mary Fallin (R) won. In Wyoming, NRA-endorsed Governor Matt Mead (R) won. In Idaho, NRA-endorsed Governor Bruce Otter (R) won. In Kansas, NRA-endorsed Governor Sam Brownback (R) won. And in Maine, NRA-endorsed Governor Paul R. LePage (R) won against gun control candidate Michael Michaud (D). (On August 8, Breitbart News reported that Michaud was supported by Gabby Giffords.) 
In Senate races, gun control Senator Mark Udall (D-CO) was defeated by NRA-endorsed Cory Gardner (R) and gun control Senator Kay Hagan (D-NC) was defeated by NRA-endorsed Thom Tillis (R). In Kansas, NRA-endorsed Senator Pat Roberts (R) won. In Georgia, NRA-endorsed Senatorial candidate David Perdue (R) won. In Arkansas, NRA-endorsed Tom Cotton (R) won. And in West Virginia, NRA-endorsed Shelley Moore Capito (R) won, marking the first time that state has sent a Republican Senator to Washington DC in over five decades 

And how do the American people feel about these gun-grabbing crusades? The Pew Research Center revealed in 2014 that support for gun control has plummeted:
 
For the first time in more than two decades of Pew Research Center surveys, there is more support for gun rights than gun control. Currently, 52% say it is more important to protect the right of Americans to own guns, while 46% say it is more important to control gun ownership.
 
Support for gun rights has edged up from earlier this year, and marks a substantial shift in attitudes since shortly after the Newtown school shootings, which occurred two years ago this Sunday.
 
And how many federal gun control laws were created in 2014 and 2013? Zero. Zilch. None. Nada. 
One would think that if the gun-grabbers were “winning,” the NRA wouldn’t have the bankroll of millions of active members and the federal government could have squeezed out a meager federal gun control statute.
 
Aside from failures in state governments, failures in national government, failures on the campaign trail for anti-gun candidates and an overall rejection of gun control amongst the American population, yeah, the gun control crusaders are doing great… 

oped: And so Mr. Gun what say you? 


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