CAP Recommendations On Guns

The Center for American Progress, basically the left’s equivalent of Heritage Foundation, is going to be submitting its own proposals for gun control, including:

CAP’s proposals — which include requiring universal background checks, banning military-grade assault weapons and high-capacity ammunition magazines, and modernizing data systems to track gun sales and enforce existing laws — are all but certain to face stiff opposition from the National Rifle Association and its many allies in Congress.

What keeps killing me is a few months ago, they were thinking this issue was toxic to Democrats, and now it’s suddenly a winning cause. What changed isn’t the culture, it’s their coalition. It reminds me of something Jim Geraghty said the day after the election:

Ari Fleischer points out the silver lining is that so far, Romney is winning independents. That’s not a silver lining, that’s worse news: Democrats don’t really need independents anymore.

That’s exactly right, and I have a feeling I will be returning to that thought often over the next four years.

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Beware of Stereotypes about NRA Members

So I was taking to a coworker today, who is a dues paying member of our cause. He’s busy trying to make sure all his family members are signed up for NRA, or current with their membership. He just signed up his wife, whose family escaped Nazi occupied France and sought refuge in Latin America, along with many other Jews.

“You should get a junior NRA membership for [the boy]” I noted, thinking not much of it.*

So I came home and told Bitter our efforts, and she admonishes me for my sexism almost immediately. He has an older daughter, and why did I not think of her? I have to admit my fault here. I may have been raised by northeastern Democratic parents, but in my cultural upbringing, guns were a boy thing. I guess it took an Oklahoma native to point that out to me. So don’t discount members based on your biases. I guess that’s my lesson for tonight.

* There is a junior membership there if you look carefully at the tabs.

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The Threat Profile

I heard from a reader that MoveOn is raising $175,000 for “civil action” on gun control and they are 39% there. I don’t think folks can reasonably say there’s no longer any money in this issue against us. That is changing, and it is very dangerous. We’ve benefitted greatly by our opponents lack of funding in the past decade.

Meanwhile, the Administration is planning an end run around NRA. Sounds like former lobbyist Richard Feldman was at the meeting with Biden, NRA, and the other gun groups. Who Feldman was representing, I don’t know, but he was pre-conceding private sales on behalf of whoever he was there for (probably himself.) I would remind folks that we outlaw private sales of handguns in Pennsylvania, and that hasn’t stopped gun control groups from seeking more restrictions. Why, before we’ve even really locked horns, just concede something out of the gate? Clearly Feldman went to the John Boehner school of negotiation.

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