Obama calls for gun ban

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I believe President Obama committed political suicide during last night’s debate where he called for reinstating an AWB:

“… what I’m trying to do is to get a broader conversation about how do we reduce the violence generally.  Part of it is seeing if we can get an assault weapons ban reintroduced …”

He’s been real careful to avoid gun control over the last four years.  Why he decided to say this now I don’t know.  My only guess is with polls now showing Mitt Romney at 50% and his ’08 supporters abandoning him, he’s trying to shore up a disintegrating base.

Solid as Jello

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Via FoxNews, “Gun rights groups now aligning solidly behind Romney“:

“Gun-rights groups perceive President Barack Obama as a threat to unfettered access to firearms.  They once had qualms about Mitt Romney, too.  But times and circumstances have changed for Romney, the GOP presidential nominee now in tune with the National Rifle Association and similar organizations, whose members are motivated voters …”

What do they mean “once had”?  Gunnies still do have reservations about Romney, lots of them.  He’s not “in tune” with NRA either.  NRA appears to have gotten some assurances from Romney on SCOTUS nominees and H.R. 822 which, along with not making Romney into the second coming of Charlton Heston, have quieted people down somewhat.

While the membership can be motivated to vote, I have not heard a single person say they’re excited about voting for Romney because of his latest positions on gun rights.  Fortunately, with the economy such an overriding issue this election, the gun issue isn’t high up on peoples list of concerns right now.

Voting guide

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The general election voting guide is now online with ratings for Assembly and Senate, plus some judicial endorsements..

Ryan cuts interview short

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Paul Ryan interview on ABC affiliate WJRT. According to the Daily News, the reporter knew he was over time when he started asking questions about gun control and taxes.

NRA ad

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Here’s an NRA ad they’re running in Florida, Ohio, Virginia and Wisconsin.  I’m not impressed with it.

NRA endorsed Romney

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NRA endorsed Mitt Romney:

“… “As the Supreme Court has recently reaffirmed, the Second Amendment protects a basic and fundamental individual right—the right to bear arms,” said Mitt Romney.  “And it is the NRA that protects the Second Amendment.  I am proud to have their support for my candidacy, and when I am president, I will do all in my power to defend and protect the right of all law-abiding Americans to keep and bear arms.” …”

This was hardly unexpected and not everyone is happy about it.   At least they appear to have learned something from their endorsement of John McCain in that they make it clear that they are concerned about the future makeup of the Supreme Court:

“… Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan will protect our Right to Keep and Bear Arms by appointing Supreme Court justices who will uphold the rulings in District of Columbia v. Heller and McDonald v. City of Chicago – two landmark cases which held that the Second Amendment guarantees a fundamental, individual Right to Keep and Bear Arms for all law-abiding Americans …”

While clearly all members won’t like this, at least they will understand it.  NRA isn’t trying to make Romney himself into a great hero of the 2A, which is what they tried to do with McCain, and that is what pissed so many people off because it was such blatant bullshit.

Gun control FAIL

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Despite all the crying from the Brady Campaign and Mayor Bloomberg’s attempt to intimidate the candidates with his money, gun control did not come up in yesterday’s debates.

Even better, most viewers believe that Romney wiped the floor with Obama, much to the chagrin of talking head Chris Matthews who was losing his shit over it.

Bloomberg’s ego

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Mayor Mike is trying again to get Obama and Romney to take up his gun control agenda.  This time he’s using one of the Aurora victims as his puppet:

As George points out, Mayors Against Illegal Guns receives 99.97% of their funding from one source: Bloomberg.

He’s funded a number of print and broadcast advertising campaigns over the years and nothing has come from any of them. You’d think that, as a businessman, Bloomberg would realize he’s not getting any return on his investment. The only explanation I can think for his continuing to run them is that he’s just so full of himself that he doesn’t care.

Juan Williams doesn’t get it

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Juan Williams writes, “Terrifyingly large questions for Obama and Romney“:

“Here are really big questions for the big presidential debate on domestic policy on October 3rd in Denver … President Obama, the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence has given you an “F.”  They say the failure is based on your “lack of leadership” the gun control issue.  In your first term, we have had three of the worst mass shootings in US History … Could you have done more to stop the spread of assault weapons and gun violence over the last four years?  Will you make gun control a priority in your second term?  Are you paralyzed by the National Rifle Association’s political clout? …”

Just like the antis, Williams’ either doesn’t get it or simply refuses to admit that gun control is not a winning campaign issue.

There’s a reason for all the gun control rollbacks the past few years and it is not because of the NRA.  It is because the public knows gun control is a fraud and are not demanding their elected officials enact more restrictive laws.  Is the NRA somehow responsible for the inability of New Yorker’s Against Gun Violence to bring people to Albany to lobby their issues?  Is NRA preventing people from showing up at Ladd’s weekly protests outside the White House?  The reality is that gun control is a unpopular issue pushed only by a handful of (unfortunately) well-financed and politically connected astroturf groups with negligible genuine public support.