Reply #69: You say "Gun Control" it isn't a killer issue.

[beevul]

Can you explain what happened to Tom Foley in 1994 and why? He was first sitting Speaker since 1860 not to win re-election to Congress.


Also this from then President Bill Clintons 1995 state of the union address:

"I don't want to destroy the good atmosphere in the room or in the country tonight, but I have to mention one issue that divided this body greatly last year. The last Congress also passed the Brady Bill and, in the crime bill, the ban on 19 assault weapons. I don't think it's a secret to anybody in this room that several members of the last Congress who voted for that aren't here tonight because they voted for it.

http://www.let.rug.nl/usa/P/bc42/speeches/sud95wjc.htm

"The fights I fought... cost a lot --the fight for the assault-weapons ban cost 20 members their seats in Congress"

Bill Clinton.


If you are going to assert that "Gun Control is not a killer issue for Dems", you need to back that statement up with some proof. As of right now, its just an assertion.

One thats been refuted at that.