Why the president lost:
By spending time on an assault weapons ban, gun controllers hurt themselves in multiple ways. They energized the NRA’s base, who could probably have been persuaded to live with background checks. They wasted time, which had a huge cost: gun owners care about gun rights all the time, but the rest of the population mostly cares about gun control in the wake of a high-profile tragedy. And they made themselves look less like serious negotiators who were willing to come to a compromise that the other side could accept, and more like they were trying to reinstate the kind of gun laws that NRA members had spent two decades beating back.
In other words, by demanding more, they got less.
Bottom line — he’s as incompetent at negotiation as he is at most things. And of course, it doesn’t help when you accuse people of cowardice because they don’t share your opinion.
He lost the legislative battle but I don’t think that bothers him in the slightest. It’s a useful tool to whip the masses into a frenzy.
Plus, I’m sure he’s been ready to achieve his goals by executive order, EPA and HHS regulation all along.
That will be phase 2.
He’s welcome to whip the 4% of Americans who think the need to ban guns is more important than things like the economy or unemployment, into whatever frenzy they can work up.
If he thinks bypassing Congress won’t whip up a frenzy against him outnumbering his 4%, replacing him with Biden would be an improvement.
Well here is Biden today:
“Look I know you’re going to say that I’m just being an optimist and I’m trying to put a good face on this. But you know I’ve been around here a long time and we’ve already done, because of you, some really good things,” Biden said. “Number one, the president is already lining up some additional executive actions he’s going to be taking later this week.”
Anyone who IS a gun owner / shooter / hunter can see that they’ve already all but gotten gun owners stopped in their tracks. There is NO ammunition to be found right now. I’ve bought some in drips and drabs over the last few months. Nothing exotic either, 9mm, .22LR, 7.62 x 39, and .12 ga. I chose my stuff because of the ease of finding ammunition.
HA!
I got some ammunition the first week of this month that I ordered in NOVEMBER. My usual outlets are DEVOID of any products in ANY caliber or gauge. I had been buying boxes of loose .22LR ammunition in boxes of 500 or 550 rounds, for $18 to $20 a box. That SAME box, online only now is $125 to $150.
By utilizing the Fed buying power combined with their ‘we’re always first’ contracts, DHS is buying ALL the ammunition that ALL the manufacturers are making. The bad thing is that it’s costing us TAX money for the stuff, and it’s raised the cost of ammunition out here in the real world.
The good thing is that IF we survive the current administration, hopefully the next one will be conservative and they’ll sell it all at surplus prices!
Which means we lose money on the deal. The real other problem with DHS doing this, to me anyway, is the opportunity for warehouseman to rob DHS [ergo all of US] blind. And when DHS is literally buying billions of rounds, in all calibers and gauges, a couple of pallets getting ‘lost’ is easy. That’s precisely the kind of ammunition that winds up in the hands of MS13, Crips, Bloods, and most probably into the hands of marathon bombing, car jacking, 7-Eleven robbing, cop killing, ethnic Chechen, teens and 20somethings living in Boston.
Such folks are usually barred from and reluctant to buy from the local ‘Ammo-R’-Us’ types of places, so stolen ammo is their best bet. And once again we have the (D)’s to thank, for once again disarming legal gun owners and arming illegal gun owners.
Is ANYONE counting lap posts and buying rope in and around D.C. yet?
I’d hate to run short of either if the revolution starts. Certainly many of our elected tormenters deserve their own lamp post and bight, I’d hate to insult them by making anyone wait or by being pressed into doubling up!
I think it is a mistake to assume that he cares about Democrat/Liberal ideals. Here he gets the best of both worlds:
1) Liberals love him because he tried
2) Conservatives love him because he failed
Liberals only care about “trying” and “doing something”; actually succeeding or accomplishing a goal is way down on their priority list. On the other hand, Conservatives care only about the outcome. Win-win!
Whatever good feelings conservatives have about this, they don’t translate into love for him.
Why can’t it be:
1) Liberals hate him because he failed
2) Conservatives hate him because he tried
I think it’s:
1) Liberals feel badly for him because his good deeds are blocked by the evyl, horrid, knuckle-dragging, no good, toothless, brainless, gun-loving, bible-thumping, bitter clingers….
2) Conservatives hate him because he tried.
“By spending time on an assault weapons ban, gun controllers hurt themselves in multiple ways.” Couldn’t happen to a nicer bunch of statists. Their pain is my joy.
Of course you’d say that; you’re not a narcissist.
But he’s the smartest guy in the room???
Open the champagne!
My personal survey of Americans suggests that they are upset that “democracy” failed them once again. I think the vast majority of Americans have lost any sense of what being a republic is all about.
Not so much upset that democracy has failed, perhaps more distracted by bread and circuses.
Bottom line — he’s as incompetent at negotiation.
One is incompetent at what one does not do.