Support for the anti-rights “gun safety” agenda is a mile wide and an inch deep.<\/p>\n
Support for gun rights is a mile wide and a mile deep.<\/p>\n
Case in point<\/a>:<\/p>\n Although Mayors Against Illegal Guns\u2019 efforts helped defeat GOP gubernatorial candidate Ken Cuccinelli, no one seriously expected him to win. However, of the 67 Virginia House of Delegates candidates endorsed by the National Rifle Association and targeted by Bloomberg\u2019s group, 65 won, according to the Washington Examiner.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n That’s about a 3% win rate for the splashy anti-rights group – or alternately, 97% for the good guys.<\/p>\n It’s been a tough year for the splashy, big-bucks rights-grabbing group:<\/p>\n After December\u2019s Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre, the group got behind President Obama\u2019s call for sweeping gun control legislation. But negotiations between U.S. Sens. Pat Toomey, R-Pa., and Joe Manchin, D-W.V., yielded a mere milquetoast background check proposal.<\/p>\n Still, the Mayors Against Illegal Guns website reported that the group got firmly behind the bill and aired a new series of ads campaigning for its passage. When the measure came for a Senate vote, it went down in flames.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n It wasn’t just legislation:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The group then tried to prevent the recall of two anti-gun state senators in Colorado. Although a reported $2 million was spent to support the lawmakers, both lost their jobs, according to Reuters.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n About 10% of the mayors are voting with their feet:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Some 95 key members of the group that targets and criticizes lawmakers backed by the National Rifle Association are losing their title of \u201cmayor.\u201d According to an election review of Bloomberg\u2019s membership list of about 1,000, three quit the group, 69 retired from their jobs, and 23 were rejected by voters.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n And that doesn’t even count the ones that have left office<\/a> for, er, other reasons<\/a>.<\/p>\n And I bet Michael Bloomberg would call this next factoid an “unintended consequence”, if he were honest enough:<\/p>\n As for that Virginia election, the number of state lawmakers the NRA rated \u201cA\u201d actually grew from 63 to 65 as a result of Tuesday\u2019s election.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n More of this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Support for the anti-rights “gun safety” agenda is a mile wide and an inch deep. Support for gun rights is a mile wide and a mile deep. Case in point: Although Mayors Against Illegal Guns\u2019 efforts helped defeat GOP gubernatorial candidate Ken Cuccinelli, no one seriously expected him to win. However, of the 67 Virginia […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[255,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-racket","category-victim-disarmament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39725"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39725\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39760,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39725\/revisions\/39760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}