Convention indicates Democrats appear ready to step up push for gun-law reform

[billh58]

For three decades the extremist leaders of the modern National Rifle Association have focused on making it tough for politicians, almost all of them Democrats, who dare to argue in favor of perfectly reasonable gun-law reforms.

They have demonized state legislators, governors, congresspersons, senators, and presidents, which has in turn ​intimidated other such leaders into silence and policy paralysis—or, worse, spurred them into loosening gun-related restrictions on carrying firearms openly or concealed just about anywhere the carriers wish.

They have attacked Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton as “gun-grabbers,” and incited racist and sexist rhetoric from some gun-owners about those two and other reform politicians.

For the first two days of the Democratic National Convention, not much was said about gun-related violence. But on Wednesday, you could see from the line-up of speakers that the leadership of the Democratic Party has had its fill of this lethal and lucrative nonsense from the gun lobby.

One of the speakers, Erica Smegielski, said she wished she could be with her mother this year watching the convention. But she couldn’t because her mother was the Connecticut principal at Sandy Hook Elementary School who died in the massacre of first-graders and educators there in 2012. Smegielski told the delegates that “what we need is another mother who’s willing to do what’s right. Whose bravery can live up in equal measure to my mom’s. What we need is to elect Hillary Clinton.”

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/7/28/1553524/-Convention-indicates-Democrats-are-appear-ready-to-step-up-push-for-gun-law-reform

Second Amendment absolutists and NRA/ILA apologists are fond of using the term "gun grabber" when referring to we Democrats who are calling for stricter gun control and mandating gun owner responsibilities. The Second Amendment does not preclude regulation aimed at protecting the citizens of this country from gun violence and gun extremism.

We must elect Democrats to all levels of government and demand that they roll back the obscene open/concealed carry laws introduced over the past three decades by the NRA and their criminal arm ALEC.