Guns: Democrats vow to end the American Plague

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7. Do you remember what happened in 1994?

Democrats lost control of Congress, and the Democratic Speaker even lost his bid for reelection. Bill Clinton believed that the AWB was largely responsible for most of the losses in the House. Not long afterward, Gore's gun control positions were later also widely attributed to his losing his home state of Tennessee, and thus the presidency. What kind of progressive legislative and policy solutions were sacrificed for a AWB and other gun control measures that the DOJ later held had no measurable impact.

Support for gun rights and opposition to restrictions have since increased in the intervening decades, all while gun laws have liberalized, the Supreme Court has affirmed individual gun rights, the 1994 AWB expired without fanfare, crime rates have halved, Democrats couldn't even pass UBC's in a Democratic Senate despite claims of overwhelming popular support, and Republicans now control all of Congress, with their largest majority in the House in generations.

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/12/bill-clinton-assault-weapon-ban-newtown-shooting

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