Quote Originally Posted by Hound View Post
There are moderate Democrats, they used to be called Blue-Dog Democrats. On that backlash, its coming. I went to the town-hall meeting this weekend for my district. I let loose on the abomination that were the Senate 'public' hearings. 3 of the 4 representative have written personal (not form) letters to me trying to understand why I and so many others are so upset. They really thought "the people" were behind those bills. I let them know they are wrong. We need to work together to get them out and more than that, to know why. So they don't try this BS again!
You are right, and I used to be a Blue Dog from Arizona, and I left the party years ago.

After all of the letter writing, emailing, posting, Tweeting, faxing, honking and showing up at the state capitol, I can not fathom how any Democrat lawmaker could ever come to the conclusion that "the people" were behind those bills.

A possible reason for the misperception is that they were fed biased data from Bloomberg and other gun control groups. Polls conducted by many mainstream media organizations in December and January did show national support for certain gun control measures, and it may have been that Bloomberg and his crew did their own polling data for Colorado. My guess that if they did, it was biased and designed to entice red district Democrats into supporting the bills. A few did not, but all they needed was the billionaire's poll numbers to support them. Seeing that most of the lawmakers can not make up their own mind, let alone know how a gun works, they would seem to be an easy bunch to influence.

Now, we have the president giving Newtown parents a free ride on Air Force One to Washington DC so they can lobby Congress. I do not know if that is even legal, but I sure as heck would bet the left-wing would object to a Republican president flying ministers and pastors on his plane to lobby Congress to pass anti-abortion laws!

Gun controllers know that time heals, and they have to keep the emotions high to get a vote. However, as more time passes, it isn't that our attention is distracted, it is simply that given time to think people realize that new gun laws will not make things right or prevent future wrongs. Evil happens, that is why we have to work daily to keep it at bay and be prepared to confront it if it darkens our door.