Although the article is a few months old, it is relevent to the most recent loss by the Dem's in Georgia. The losing candidate (Ossoff) is mentioned trying to dodge the issue of guns at first, then committing to opposing Campus carry. It also talked about Obama waiting until after his reelection before talking about gun control. Also how the anti gun activists changed their language. Although I disagree with some of their conclusions, the article is still interesting. There are many Democrat's in the news now talking about changing their party, but they don't seem to mention the gun issues. If they do, it's usually Democratic candidates giving lip service to gun rights, but not really meaning what they say, if they say anything at all.
I think the bolded part is a mistake or typo, based on how it's worded. Also I saw recordings of the Democratic debates, and she was clearly anti gun, and trying to use Sanders and Joe Manchin's voting record against them.Anti-gun activists “got smart,” according to The Atlantic, using the phrase “preventing gun violence” instead of “gun control” and showering praise on “law-abiding gun owners.”
A bipartisan duo, both previously endorsed by the NRA, crafted the background check bill. Yet the effort still ran into a brick wall of NRA opposition, and four red-state Democratic senators joined most Republicans in a successful filibuster. Obama ended up with neither a gun control law nor an immigration reform law. I believe they meant to say anti gun.
The last part of the article,Republicans suffered no consequences from their obstruction, taking nine Democratically held Senate seats, mainly in red states, to win full control of Congress in the 2014 midterms. Undeterred, 2016 Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton ran on the most explicitly pro-gun control platform since 2000, calculating that it would help her against Sanders in the primary and betting that Sandy Hook had changed the political equation for the general election.
It did not. As OpenSecrets reported after the 2016 election, “the NRA’s investment, which was more than any other outside group, paid for a slew of ads that directly targeted the same voters who propelled Trump to victory.”
I don't believe is going to happen with the current Democratic party. You want to reduce gun crime? One of the best ways is going after the violent criminals themselves. It's been done before, and proven to reduce gun related crime, but Hillary took flak for it from activists within her own party.At that point, Democrats won’t be able to sweep the gun issue under the rug. They will have to make a choice: to be or not to be the party of gun control. And if they are still going to be the party committed to reducing gun violence, they had best not waste time figuring out how to do it.