Pro-Gun Democrats?

28 Aug 07 Pro-gun Democrats? We just completed a Concealed-Carry-Pistol Class in MN. Several years ago, MN was extremely restrictive, much as WI and IL are today. It was impossible for state residents to carry concealed legally. Today, the State has one of the best and least restrictive CCW systems in the nation. CCW permits may be obtained by any legal resident who has no criminal history, and there are few limitations. The intrepid authors of this pivotal legislation were students in my class! They reported this historic CCW statute, that MN residents now take for granted, would never have passed at state level without open and unapologetically enthusiastic support from a number of pro-gun, Democratic state senators and representatives. These courageous Democrats openly broke with the DNC and the state Democratic Committee, who, of course, had (and continue to have) a predictable, knee-jerk opposition to any and all pro-gun legislation. So, there are indeed audacious, pro-gun Democrats, and they need encouragement! The 2008 Democratic presidential nominee will almost certainly be Hillary Clinton, and I hope some politicians, like the ones described above, can get to her and explain that, on the brink of victory, she is going to lose this election, and frightened gun-owners voting, not for her Republican opponent, but AGAINST her, on this critical issue, will be the proximate cause! I'm saying this, mostly to my Democratic friends, of whom I have many. The Party needs to rethink its foolish, self-crippling stance on this issue before it costs them yet another election. Americans today are in no mood to be told they are too stupid to own, and carry, guns! Both leading Republican contenders have anti-gun backgrounds, and American gun-owners are warming up to neither. Democrats have an decisive opportunity, if they can only get over their blind, unthinking allegiance to hatred and fear of guns and gun-owners. Are any Democrats listening? /John