{"id":11977,"date":"2015-10-17T19:20:15","date_gmt":"2015-10-17T23:20:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=11977"},"modified":"2015-10-17T19:22:33","modified_gmt":"2015-10-17T23:22:33","slug":"not-a-winning-strategy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=11977","title":{"rendered":"Not a winning strategy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Over at Hot Air is an op-ed, “Hillary\u2019s gun confiscation proposal is going to backfire in a big way.<\/a>”<\/p>\n

I agree. Pushing gun control is a bad idea for the general election.\u00a0 What I don’t agree with is this:<\/p>\n

“… this is a winning strategy for Clinton<\/a> 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 …”<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It isn’t for several reasons:<\/p>\n

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  1. As I have said many times before<\/a>, the antis do not have an ability to turn out people to vote on their issue.\u00a0 There is a huge difference between having a person agree with an idea and going out and acting on it.\u00a0 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.<\/li>\n
  2. Anything Hillary says during the primary will come back against her in the general election.<\/li>\n
  3. By opening her mouth now, she has given time for gunnies to raise money and organize people in opposition to her.\u00a0 Unless she is expecting Mayor Bloomberg<\/a> to personally cut her a $100 million check, why bring up the issue now?\u00a0 All she has done is raised millions of dollars for the NRA<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n