Democrats - It's Not About The Kids Or Gun Violence - It's Just Politics and Power - Granite Grok

Democrats – It’s Not About The Kids Or Gun Violence – It’s Just Politics and Power

When Mayor Bloomberg set his anti-gun sights on Sen. Mark Pryor (D-AR) over his opposition to new gun ownership restrictions, Democrats changed their tune.  Democrat Senators Charles Schumer and Harry Reid, even former President Bill Clinton, who according to TIME reporter Mark Halprin,

 “asked Bloomberg to temper his enthusiasm for attacking politicians who oppose stricter gun laws if those politicians happen to be Democrats.”

Mark Pryor (D-AR), Kay Hagan (D-NC) and Mark Begich (D-AK), all Senate Democrats, offer an opportunity for us to explore the real motivation of New Hampshire Democrats on the issue of expanded Background checks.  Is it principled and honest, or just opportunistic, shallow, and political?

After casting the same vote as Pryor, Hagen and Begich, New Hampshire Democrats had a web site up, attacking Senator Kelly Ayotte,  on cue with the Bloomberg and OFA assault on the Republican from New Hampshire.  It was a full media broadside from the left, complete with press releases, skewed polls, misrepresented language, out of state money and out of state activists. ( They even marched a survivor of a victim from Connecticut into the state and snuck her into a town hall to perform for the media circus.  I knew she was being used and I have to wonder if she’s figured that out yet or not?)

But that was quite a bit of stagecraft.  A serious push for change at the national level.  So what about Mark Pryor (D-AR), Kay Hagan (D-NC) and Mark Begich (D-AK)?  Their votes impacted national change on this issue.

Will New Hampshire Democrats come to the aid of Mayor Bloomberg on his principled assault on Senate Democrats up for re-election who supported what he, OFA, and NH Democrats likened to a vote for Gun Violence? And…

Where does that leave the grassroots Democrats who were so convinced by their party’s representatives that blood will flow in the streets unless the Congress takes action on gun control?  —Mediaite

Will they stand on principle or remain silent because that is what they’ve been told by their Party leadership?

They won’t lift a finger.

Party leadership has talked Bloomberg down.  That gun violence issue is no longer all that important, not in Arkansas, or North Carolina, or even Alaska.

But we knew that.  Democrats got all weepy in front of the cameras for Trayvon Martin, but there are thousands of Trayvon’s murdered every year whose names and stories no Democrat will never really know.   And this may come as a surprise to the nut-roots on the left, but Party leadership has never cared about those children unless they could stand on their graves for political advantage.

If they really cared at all about “gun violence” they’d admit  the evidence proves that states and cities with concealed carry and less restrictive gun laws on law-abiding citizens, have safer streets, less violent crime, fewer rapes, robberies, muggings, and assaults.  The presence of law abiding armed citizens saves lives.   Instead, they shout about laws that no criminal will ever follow and how we need more of the–as they lord over cities reduced to nothing more than Democrat run victim factories fed with the lives of their own helpless citizens.

You know, there was a long list of proud NH Democrats who read the names of criminals and victims alike when the Bloomberg bus was in Concord.  And everyone in the state party office, elected leadership and down through the party structure, attacked Kelly Ayotte for the same vote cast by Pryor, Hagan, and Begich.

Why aren’t they attacking Pryor, Hagan, and Begich?  Why aren’t they calling and writing to Senator Shaheen, or State Chair Ray Buckley–who is well regarded in the national party structure.  Why aren’t they sending letters to the editor demanding that NH Democrats pressure the party machine to go after the Democrat Senators on the same so-called principles upon which they claim to base their attacks on Kelly Ayotte?

We know it is because this issue, like most, has nothing to do with how they advertise it, and everything to do with politics and power,  but if you get the chance, let us know how much they squirm, will you?

 

 

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