Reply #107: It's a loser to start talking about "repealing" the 2nd Amendment, [View All]

[Mike L]

even if we replace it with a modern right to own guns. Gun owners will think it's a Dem "trick".

What we need to do is get out of the "gun control" business. We need to shut Feinstein and Schumer up and run state and federal level candidates who are totally pro-gun. Leave gun control issues to politicians on the city level in cities like NY that want gun control.

Gun control is a losing position at the Federal level. Effective gun control legislation won't pass anyway. Clinton's 1993 cosmetic assault rifle ban was a joke. The manufacturer of the AR-15 only had to saw the bayonet lug off that rifle to keep selling it. The only thing the ban accomplished was giving the Repugs control of the House and more seats in the Senate in 1994. If we want to push an effective piece of legislation, we can ban high capacity magazines again. I doubt that the NRA would even fight this and gun owners wouldn't care.

It's past time to get realistic on the politics of gun issues. Our Democratic leaders have screwed up royally in the past.