The Brady foundation is crowing about the fact that Pro Gun Control candidates swept the last election. The results of the last election are proof that even most gun owners realize more gun control laws will stop criminals. Do you believe that? I don't.
Have a read of the report from their website and then decide which way to vote next time. As you will see it is not a simple partisan manner.
The report
http://www.bradycenter.org/xshare/pdf/reports/guns-2008election.pdf
From the home page
http://www.bradycampaign.org/
"VOTERS SUPPORTED PRO-GUN CONTROL CANDIDATES,
AND REJECTED THE NRA MESSAGE IN THE
PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION
The NRA’s endorsement and media onslaught
failed. Even after Obama’s much-publicized “bitter” gaffe,
Obama won convincingly, including in many states with
broad gun ownership and NRA membership. The 2008
elections demonstrated – not for the first time – that
voters support candidates who favor strong gun laws and
reject the gun lobby’s extremist agenda."
"If the NRA cannot deliver a decisive block of single-issue voters, and its
advertising dollars can’t sway elections, then it is exposed as simply a well-funded special interest lobby that furthers an extremist agenda that prevents our nation from sensibly dealing with an epidemic of gun violence that claims about 30,000 lives in America each year. Further, as overwhelming majorities of Americans (including most gun owners) favor the common sense gun laws opposed by the gun lobby, both policy and political reasons counsel supporting a strong, reasonable response to gun violence."
Have a read of the report from their website and then decide which way to vote next time. As you will see it is not a simple partisan manner.
The report
http://www.bradycenter.org/xshare/pdf/reports/guns-2008election.pdf
From the home page
http://www.bradycampaign.org/
"VOTERS SUPPORTED PRO-GUN CONTROL CANDIDATES,
AND REJECTED THE NRA MESSAGE IN THE
PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION
The NRA’s endorsement and media onslaught
failed. Even after Obama’s much-publicized “bitter” gaffe,
Obama won convincingly, including in many states with
broad gun ownership and NRA membership. The 2008
elections demonstrated – not for the first time – that
voters support candidates who favor strong gun laws and
reject the gun lobby’s extremist agenda."
"If the NRA cannot deliver a decisive block of single-issue voters, and its
advertising dollars can’t sway elections, then it is exposed as simply a well-funded special interest lobby that furthers an extremist agenda that prevents our nation from sensibly dealing with an epidemic of gun violence that claims about 30,000 lives in America each year. Further, as overwhelming majorities of Americans (including most gun owners) favor the common sense gun laws opposed by the gun lobby, both policy and political reasons counsel supporting a strong, reasonable response to gun violence."
