Yes, I’m saying some people were wrong, but that’s not exactly the topic for debate.
What I am saying happened is:
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Prior to Sandy Hook, an oft-repeated message was: it’s foolish to refuse to vote for Democrats based on your Second Amendment support; the Democrats aren’t a danger to gun rights.
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After Sandy Hook, that statement was exposed as incorrect: many Democrats showed their willingness to sponsor and/or support restrictive (and cosmetic!) gun control legislation.
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Despite that willingness, the combination of a near-united Republican opposition and a fear of political suicide by Democrats from more moderate states led to the defeat of the most visible such measure.
So what I am now asking is: going forward, will the Democrats, and/or their vocal proxies here, again attempt to claim that electing them is safe from a Second Amendment supporter’s perspective?
Note that your distinction between intent and principles is not exactly relevant. I certainly understand your desire to empathize that nothing in the above was underhanded – you claim that when the Democrats said they weren’t going to enact any gun legislation, they were being honest; then circumstances changed. That may well be true, but I’m not accusing the Democrats of bad faith. I am just pointing out that their prediction – for what very possibly might have been good, albeit unforeseeable, reasons – was not accurate. Will they return to it, even so?