Why vote Republican ?
Easy: two reasons.
1) They are the party that is voting pro-RKBA; and
2) They are much more likely to appoint pro-RKBA Supreme Court Justices.
The proof of (2) is easy: Bush appointed Alioto and Roberts. They haven’t really been tested yet, but I have much more confidence in them, untested, than I would have had with two appointments by GoreKerry (Another Ruth Bader Ginsburg, anyone ?)
For number (1), we can look at the relative recent historical record and the very recent record.
This post from Bartholomew Roberts really nails the first part:
If you still have all of your guns, it is certainly not because of Democrats.
Let's take a look at federal gun control legislation, shall we?
1934 National Firearms Act - proposed by Democrat, signed by Democratic President.
1968 Gun Control Act - proposed by Democrat, signed by Democratic President
1986 Firearm Owners Protection Act - proposed by Republican, the one gun control provision added (closing the NFA registry to civilians) is added by a Democrat controlled House
1994 Brady Law - proposed by Democrat, signed by a Democratic President
1994 Assault Weapons Ban - proposed by a Democrat, signed by a Democratic President
Let's look at some of the past bills supported by recent Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry:
Kerry co-sponsored S.1431 - the bill expanding the ban on semi-auto weapons to include guns such as the Remington 1187 he was photographed with on the campaign trail.
Kerry voted twice to kill the CMP. If he doesn't trust you with 1903 bolt-actions and Garands, what does he trust you with?
Kerry voted in March 2004 to extend the existing semi-auto ban.
When Kerry mentor and top Democrat Ted Kennedy stood up in february 2004 to introduce his bill saying:
"Another rifle caliber, the 30.30 caliber, was responsible for penetrating three officers' armor and killing them in 1993, 1996, and 2002. This ammunition is also capable of puncturing light-armored vehicles, ballistic or armored glass, armored limousines, even a 600-pound safe with 600 pounds of safe armor plating.
It is outrageous and unconscionable that such ammunition continues to be sold in the United States of America." (Page S1634 of the Congressional Record, February 26, 2004)
John Kerry voted YES to ban .30-30 and other centerfire rifle ammo as armor-piercing.
Of course, all of that is from 2004 - shall we look at current gun control legislation sponsored by Democrats in Congress to see what they have planned for us in the future? Shall we look to Democrat controlled New Orleans in the wake of Katrina for an answer? Should we look to the new wave of weapons banned in California every year?
Better yet, in the interests of brevity, why don't you just list for us all the pro-gun legislation introduced by Democrats this year?
We have all read the same Dem strategy paper advanced by Americans For Gun Safety that basically tries to repackage the old Democratic gun control agenda as a "gun safety issue" while at the same time being less openly hostile to gun owners (I.e. "I support the Second Amendment; but you should still be registered, licensed and tracked like sex offenders when you are allowed to own guns at all"). The Dems need a REAL pro-gun strategy if they want pro-gun votes.
And for the second part, the recent voting records, consider:
The Senate vote on the Gun Industry Shield was voted on last year, and I count Rs and Ds as follows:
Voting Republicans in favor of the Shield:
50 to 2, or 96.15%.
Voting Democrats in favor of the Shield:
14 to 29, or 32.56%.
And, more recently, 16 senators voted against H.R. 5013 to prohibit the confiscation of firearms:
(D-HI), Boxer (D-CA), Clinton (D-NY), Dodd (D-CT), Durbin, (D-IL), Feinstein (D-CA), Harkin (D-IA), Inouye (D-HI), Kennedy (D-MA), Lautenberg (D-NJ), Levin (D-MI), Menendez (D-NJ), Mikulski (D-MD), Reed (D-RI), Sarbanes (D-MD), Schumer (D-NY).
Do you
Detect any pattern ?