Lilli Petersen at Huffington Post/Yahoo News opines:
“President Joe Biden is set to travel to Connecticut Friday to speak on one of the key issues uniting his ideologically and demographically diverse coalition: gun control. Biden’s speech Friday at the National Safer Communities Summit in Hartford, organized by leading gun control groups, is not officially a campaign event. … A central problem facing Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris’ reelection bid is simple: Their coalition includes everyone from moderate baby boomers in the suburbs to progressive college students in city cores, anchored by Black and Latino voters throughout the country. Gun control is a key issue gluing those disparate groups together …
Baloney.
Gun control advocates have never, ever been able to put together a voting block around their cause. If it’s such a hot issue for Democrats, why didn’t they try and pass some big ticket items when they had majorities in Congress last year? Furthermore, black women have been the hottest demographic buying guns for the last few years.
Joe Biden’s policies nearly across the board have been a disaster for the country and the party is clearly getting worried about next year’s elections. If he wants to make an unpopular issue like gun control a campaign issue that’s fine by me.