Over at Hot Air is an op-ed, “Hillary’s gun confiscation proposal is going to backfire in a big way.”
I agree. Pushing gun control is a bad idea for the general election. What I don’t agree with is this:
“… this is a winning strategy for Clinton in the primary because her base has largely been sold on the idea of things like expanded background checks at the federal level and a national gun registry …”
It isn’t for several reasons:
- As I have said many times before, the antis do not have an ability to turn out people to vote on their issue. There is a huge difference between having a person agree with an idea and going out and acting on it. Show me where there is a serious effort by the antis to get people to register and vote for candidates based upon their gun control stance.
- Anything Hillary says during the primary will come back against her in the general election.
- By opening her mouth now, she has given time for gunnies to raise money and organize people in opposition to her. Unless she is expecting Mayor Bloomberg to personally cut her a $100 million check, why bring up the issue now? All she has done is raised millions of dollars for the NRA.