This could be a positive thing. Anytime that the gun-grabbing left is arguing with itself over exactly how many guns to confiscate, and accusing each other of being insufficiently confiscatory, well, that should be a positive development.
Or it could mean that R.F. O’Rourke is successfully shifting the Dems’ Overton window to the left, far to the left, a bad thing.
Former Rep. Beto O’Rourke criticized Democrats who did not endorse his mandatory buyback program for assault weapons on Wednesday, particularly campaign rival Mayor Pete Buttigieg.
The FBI released its Uniform Crime Report for 2018 on Monday. Notably, the number of homicides decreased significantly — by 7%. What may be even more surprising is that murders committed with firearms fell by 6.7%. And of those murders committed with a firearm, only 2.8% were with a rifle (this includes AR-type rifles), for a total of 297. It’s not a new trend, but The Washington Free Beacon notes, “Rifles were used less often to commit murder than knives, fists, and blunt objects.” Meanwhile, the overall steady decrease in violent crime has coincided with a steady increase in the number of firearms sold and owned. These are the facts.
Harris also repeated a puzzling formulation of the issue that suggests she has not given much thought to the restrictions that the Second Amendment imposes on gun control. “I’m not going to any longer accept your false choice that you’re either in favor of the Second Amendment or you want to take everyone’s guns away,” she said, implying that you can be in favor of the Second Amendment and still want to take everyone’s guns away.
Like O’Rourke, Harris was hazy on how far politicians can go without violating the Second Amendment. The Constitution is “a living document,” she said, and “its principles must be applied to the realities of today.”
This could be a positive thing. Anytime that the gun-grabbing left is arguing with itself over exactly how many guns to confiscate, and accusing each other of being insufficiently confiscatory, well, that should be a positive development.
Or it could mean that R.F. O’Rourke is successfully shifting the Dems’ Overton window to the left, far to the left, a bad thing.
More on this:
https://www.breitbart.com/2020-election/2019/10/03/beto-orourke-mayor-pete-afraid-of-doing-the-right-things-on-guns/
https://patriotpost.us/articles/65872-dems-gun-safety-proposals-trample-second-amendment-2019-10-03
https://reason.com/2019/10/03/5-misconceptions-promoted-by-democrats-during-their-gun-safety-forum/