Chris Cox on The Daily Caller: Holders tells Congress the Obama administration wants to ban guns

Chris Cox, Executive Director of the National Rifle Association’s Institute for Legislative Action issued strong words in an op-ed for The Daily Caller this week – and we expect a reputable any minute now from the anti-gun crowd.

For now we say kudos to Mr. Cox for stating his point, which included:

Last Thursday, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder appeared before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee to answer questions about his role in the deadly “Fast and Furious” gun-running scandal. However, instead of answers, Congress got more defiance, more arrogance, and more wasted time with an attorney general who clearly feels no sense of obligation to the American people or our rule of law.

But for all the stonewalling, there was at least one telling moment at this hearing, and it should concern law-abiding gun owners and all Americans who expect accountability from our government.
In a rash attempt to deflect attention away from himself and his own irresponsibility, Holder let Congress know that the Obama administration is still working toward the day when it can reinstate former President Bill Clinton’s so-called “assault weapons” ban. According to Holder:

This administration has consistently favored the reinstitution of the assault weapons ban. It is something that we think was useful in the past with regard to the reduction that we’ve seen in crime, and certainly would have a positive impact on our relationship and the crime situation in Mexico.

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AngolaPress Reports: “Bloomberg reloads in push for gun control”

The international media has noted something that the mainstream media in the United States either fails to grasp OR wants to conceal from the American public. The gun lobby’s power is voters. Consider this bit from this weekend’s AngolaPress story focusing on Mayor Bloomberg’s recent push with his Mayors Against Illegal Guns ad that was scheduled to run during the Super Bowl:

Candidates for local and national office in the U.S. have faced sharp backlashes for advocating restraints on gun ownership, such as assault weapons or guns on campus. Such pushes draw fire from the well-funded National Rifle Association (NRA) and its allies. For many defenders of the Constitution’s Second Amendment – the right to bear arms – guns are the single issue on which they vote.

Read that final sentence. Doesn’t this clearly explain that the power of the NRA is convincing voters? “Guns are the single issue on which they vote.” Now the anti-gun crowd might not like this fact, and the media may even try to hide this truth, but this is the actual power of the NRA – that it speaks to those who are single issue voters.

The article adds:

Democrats, who are more likely than Republicans to favor some restrictions on gun ownership, made a conscious decision to stay away from the gun issue in the 2010 midterm congressional elections. The aim: protect the so-called Blue Dog conservative Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives, who didn’t toe the party line on gun control. Most were defeated anyway.

If the Democratic Party hoped to keep the gun issue off center stage in the 2012 presidential race, MAIG’s campaign makes that unlikely. So does the fact that the NRA and the gun industry’s trade group, the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF), have announced they will have a combined war chest of $225 million.

Now let’s take another view, if the Democrats have stayed away from this issue isn’t it because they are scared of losing the election? The anti-crowd cries foul and tries to point that the NRA has two much power, forgetting that it is really the single issue voters who are speaking their mind.

How is this different from other issues? It is in that the anti-gun crowd doesn’t want this to be a fair fight.

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