{"id":18747,"date":"2019-03-21T12:23:10","date_gmt":"2019-03-21T16:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=18747"},"modified":"2019-03-21T12:23:10","modified_gmt":"2019-03-21T16:23:10","slug":"winning-politically","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=18747","title":{"rendered":"Winning politically"},"content":{"rendered":"

Harold Hutchison writes at Ammoland<\/a>:<\/p>\n

“With all the threats of \u201cred flag\u201d laws and criticism about the NRA<\/a>, maybe we need to take a look at what the bigger picture is showing. It is always easy to lose sight of the forest for the trees, but you sometimes have to take a step back \u2013 and a look at the big picture shows that Second Amendment supporters have been winning the arguments …”<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Winning arguments is not the same as winning at the ballot box.\u00a0 Case in point, Governor Cuomo<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“… For starters, let\u2019s look at Andrew Cuomo. His track record of wrongfully blaming and trying to punish law-abiding gun owners is very extensive. He\u2019s tried so many times to use back door approaches to get the types of policies he has wanted, whether through quarterbacking lawsuits against gun manufacturers or by his abuse of financial regulations to target the NRA … The fact that he is not trying to persuade people to see things his way but instead choosing to try and bully his political opposition into silence speaks volumes. One does not do this if they are winning an argument on the merits …”<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Cuomo isn’t trying to win based upon the merits of his arguments.\u00a0 All he, and most other gun control advocates, care about is winning elections so they are able to implement their legislative agenda.\u00a0 This is why it is pointless to debate them.\u00a0 Gun owners should ignore them and focus solely upon defeating them at election time.<\/p>\n