Wasserman Schultz
Orders Democrats to Embrace Gun Control
Friday, November 6, 2015
At the Florida Democratic Party Convention, held October
30-November 1, Democratic
National Committee Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz claimed, “The Florida
Democratic Party is back and better than ever.” Also back, it would seem, is
the national party’s misguided emphasis on gun control.
Speaking at a convention event held at the Walt Disney World Yacht and Beach Club Resort, Wasserman Schultz launched into an anti-gun screed aimed at getting members of her party to more fervently pursue gun control. According to the Orlando Sentinel, Wasserman Schultz demanded, “Democrats! We must close the gun show loophole! Democrats! We must require background checks for all gun purchases!” Indulging her penchant for hyperbole, Wasserman Schultz added, “We can’t sit idly by and allow thousands and thousands of lives to be mowed down!”
Wasserman Schultz’ excited rhetoric comes on the heals of Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s comments rejecting the Supreme Court’s holding that the Second Amendment protects an individual right and an endorsement of Australia-style gun confiscation. Together, the pair appear intent on branding Democrats as the party of severe gun controls; a label that has rarely served it well.
Wasserman Schultz and Clinton would do well to heed the warnings former President Bill Clinton. As recently as 2013, Bill warned Democrats, in relation to the gun issue, not to “patronize the passionate supporters of your opponents,” noting that passing the 1994 semi-auto ban “devastated” the party in the House of Representatives.
Bill made this same point in his autobiography, My Life, where he wrote of the 1994 election, “On November 8, we got the living daylights beat out of us, losing eight Senate races and fifty-four House seats, the largest defeat for our party since 1946....The NRA had a great night.” Elaborating, Bill wrote, “The gun lobby claimed to have defeated nineteen of the twenty-four members on its hit list. They did at least that much damage…” Later in the book, Bill credits the NRA with helping to defeat Al Gore in 2000.
These and other experiences led some to question the national party’s commitment to gun control, and advocate for a more pragmatic approach. In 2005, no less an anti-gun zealot than then Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee Chair Rahm Emanuel was quoted in a Boston Globe article titled “Democrats Recast Gun Control Image,” as stating that Democratic candidates “[have] got to reflect their districts” on the issue. While running for president in 2008 and 2012, Barack Obama did his best to conceal his anti-gun positions.
Moreover, just this week, a bevy of writers for the Washington Post reflected on the degree to which support for gun control, and the interjection of Michael Bloomberg’s millions, cost the Democrats a majority in the Virginia State Senate.
NRA is nonpartisan, and therefore supports politicians of any political party who demonstrate a legitimate respect for the right to keep and bear arms. However, if history is any guide, Wasserman Schultz and Clinton’s insistence that their party advocate against the Second Amendment rights of the American people could once again lead Democrats down the road to ruin.
Speaking at a convention event held at the Walt Disney World Yacht and Beach Club Resort, Wasserman Schultz launched into an anti-gun screed aimed at getting members of her party to more fervently pursue gun control. According to the Orlando Sentinel, Wasserman Schultz demanded, “Democrats! We must close the gun show loophole! Democrats! We must require background checks for all gun purchases!” Indulging her penchant for hyperbole, Wasserman Schultz added, “We can’t sit idly by and allow thousands and thousands of lives to be mowed down!”
Wasserman Schultz’ excited rhetoric comes on the heals of Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s comments rejecting the Supreme Court’s holding that the Second Amendment protects an individual right and an endorsement of Australia-style gun confiscation. Together, the pair appear intent on branding Democrats as the party of severe gun controls; a label that has rarely served it well.
Wasserman Schultz and Clinton would do well to heed the warnings former President Bill Clinton. As recently as 2013, Bill warned Democrats, in relation to the gun issue, not to “patronize the passionate supporters of your opponents,” noting that passing the 1994 semi-auto ban “devastated” the party in the House of Representatives.
Bill made this same point in his autobiography, My Life, where he wrote of the 1994 election, “On November 8, we got the living daylights beat out of us, losing eight Senate races and fifty-four House seats, the largest defeat for our party since 1946....The NRA had a great night.” Elaborating, Bill wrote, “The gun lobby claimed to have defeated nineteen of the twenty-four members on its hit list. They did at least that much damage…” Later in the book, Bill credits the NRA with helping to defeat Al Gore in 2000.
These and other experiences led some to question the national party’s commitment to gun control, and advocate for a more pragmatic approach. In 2005, no less an anti-gun zealot than then Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee Chair Rahm Emanuel was quoted in a Boston Globe article titled “Democrats Recast Gun Control Image,” as stating that Democratic candidates “[have] got to reflect their districts” on the issue. While running for president in 2008 and 2012, Barack Obama did his best to conceal his anti-gun positions.
Moreover, just this week, a bevy of writers for the Washington Post reflected on the degree to which support for gun control, and the interjection of Michael Bloomberg’s millions, cost the Democrats a majority in the Virginia State Senate.
NRA is nonpartisan, and therefore supports politicians of any political party who demonstrate a legitimate respect for the right to keep and bear arms. However, if history is any guide, Wasserman Schultz and Clinton’s insistence that their party advocate against the Second Amendment rights of the American people could once again lead Democrats down the road to ruin.
Debbie Wasserman Schultz
Debbie
Wasserman Schultz is the chair for the Democratic
National Committee, a house member for the FL congressional delegation, and a friend of Gabrielle Giffords.
Note: Robert F. Bauer
is general counsel for the Democratic
National Committee, a co-chair for the Presidential
Commission on Election Administration, was Barack Obama’s personal counsel, and the White House counsel for
the Barack Obama administration.
Benjamin L.
Ginsberg is a co-chair for the Presidential
Commission on Election Administration, and was a reporter for the Boston Globe.
Samantha
Power was a correspondent for the Boston
Globe, Barack Obama’s aide, and
is the United Nations U.S.
ambassador for the Barack Obama
administration.
Brian
Britton is a member of the Presidential
Commission on Election Administration, and the VP for the Walt Disney World Company.
Dennis
Ross is a member of the FL
congressional delegation, and was the in-house counsel for the Walt Disney Company.
Tony
Rodham was an employee at the Democratic
National Committee, and is Hillary
Rodham Clinton’s brother.
Hillary Rodham
Clinton is Tony Rodham’s sister,
and was a director at the Bill, Hillary
& Chelsea Clinton Foundation.
Christopher G.
Korge was the finance vice chairman for the Democratic National Committee, and a funder for the Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton
Foundation.
Terence R. McAuliffe
was a chairman for the Democratic
National Committee, and a director at the Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation.
Smith
Bagley was the finance vice chair for the Democratic National Committee, and a funder for the Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton
Foundation.
Frederick M. Baron
was a trustee at the Democratic National
Committee, and a funder for the Bill,
Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation.
Andrew
Tobias is the treasurer for the Democratic
National Committee, and was a funder for the Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation.
Open
Society Foundations was a funder for the Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation, and the Carnegie
Endowment for International Peace (think tank).
George Soros is the
founder & chairman for the Open
Society Foundations, a co-chair, national finance council for the Ready PAC (Ready For Hillary), was the
chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society, and a benefactor
for the Harlem Children's Zone.
Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Harlem Children's Zone, and the Carnegie Endowment for
International Peace (think tank).
Michael R.
Bloomberg was a benefactor for the Harlem
Children's Zone, a contributor for the Americans
for Responsible Solutions, is a co-chair for Mayors Against Illegal Guns, the founder of Everytown for Gun Safety, and the founder of Bloomberg LP.
Gabrielle
Giffords is a co-founder for the Americans
for Responsible Solutions, and a friend of Debbie Wasserman Schultz.
Americans
for Responsible Solutions is a “Gun
Safety” PAC for guns.
Mayors
Against Illegal Guns is a “Gun
Safety” group for guns.
Everytown
for Gun Safety is a “Gun Safety”
group for guns.
Warren E. Buffett
is an advisory board member for Everytown
for Gun Safety, an adviser for the Nuclear
Threat Initiative (think tank), and was a director for the Washington Post Co.
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank) was a funder for the Nuclear Threat Initiative (think tank).
Jessica Tuchman Mathews is a director at the Nuclear Threat Initiative (think tank),
was the president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think
tank), a director at the American Friends of Bilderberg (think
tank), and a 2008 Bilderberg conference participant (think tank).
Ed Griffin’s interview with
Norman Dodd in 1982
(The investigation into the
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace uncovered the plans for population
control by involving the United
States in war)
Alger Hiss was the president
of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank), and Murrey Marder covered his trial for Washington Post.
Murrey Marder covered
Alger Hiss’s trial for Washington Post, was a reporter for the
Washington Post, and an advisory
board member for the Nieman Foundation
for Journalism.
Donald E. Graham
was a publisher for the Washington Post,
the chairman & CEO for the Washington
Post Co., and is marred to Amanda
Bennett.
Richard Harwood
was a reporter & ombudsman for the Washington
Post, and John Harwood’s father.
Amanda
Bennett is married to Donald E.
Graham, an advisory board member for the Nieman Foundation for Journalism, and was an executive editor for
enterprise for the Bloomberg News.
Bloomberg News
is a division of Bloomberg LP.
John
Harwood is an advisory board member for the Nieman Foundation for Journalism, a correspondent for CNBC, and Richard Harwood’s son.
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