A Third Rail No More: Incoming House Democrats Embrace Gun Control

[Dulcinea]

The deadly mass shooting at a bar in Thousand Oaks, Calif., last week came less than a day after dozens of Democrats who campaigned on promises to strengthen gun laws were elected to the House of Representatives. Across the country, candidates from Virginia, Georgia, Texas and Washington state bluntly called for more gun safety, seemingly emboldened to take on the National Rifle Association.

In total, 95 candidates endorsed by Giffords PAC won seats in the House. Giffords PAC is the gun-violence prevention group founded by former Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and her husband. Giffords was shot in the head in a 2011 attack that left six people dead.

Everytown for Gun Safety, the gun control group partly founded by former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, pointed to equally successful results — an 83 percent win rate among its 66 endorsements in federal races.

Both groups insist that in contests in which they took on incumbents supported by the NRA, they were more successful than the powerful gun lobby.

https://www.npr.org/2018/11/13/666595118/a-third-rail-no-more-incoming-house-democrats-embrace-gun-control

[beachbum bob]

1. Doesn't matter, no gun legislation will ever go any further...and will die

in the senate until 2021

[HopeAgain]

2. We could actually learn something from the Republicans

I never, ever thought the Republicans would ever be able to change women's reproductive rights and overturn Roe v. Wade. But they have kept at it, ad naseum, year after year after year. And now, unfortunately, it lookes like it might happen.

Gun control should be pursued doggedly and endlessly by us, year after year if that is what it takes.

[lagomorph777]

3. Sure. But let's get started. It's a winning issue in 2020.