Anti-gun groups love to present themselves as non-partisan. They want you to believe that gun control is a non-partisan issue, that it’s something that transcends political lines. That people on both sides of the aisle or on neither side alike support their “sensible gun safety” policies.
Of course, it’s all a bunch of male bovine excrement. While there are exceptions on either side, the lines are mostly pretty clear. If you have Democrats in power, you end up with gun control.
Just look at Virginia.
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In New York, which isn’t a particularly pro-gun state anyway, Democrats now have the state senate in their grasp. The result, Governor Andrew Cuomo’s personal holy war against state residents’ civil liberties has stepped up a few notches.
Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo is proposing six gun control bills in his budget and more than two dozen more are active in the legislature this first election year since Republicans lost the State Senate majority and the power to block firearms measures. “We should not deny our communities and our state this opportunity that has been granted to us, of controlling both houses and the governor’s office, to pass tough measures of gun control in this session,” said Assmb. Felix Ortiz (D-Brooklyn), who has sponsored several gun control bills. “I would say this can be one of the biggest years when you go to the history book,” Ortiz said in an interview