# Reid Admits No Support For "Assault Weapons" Ban **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [March 19, 2013, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reid-admits-no-support-for-assault-weapons-ban/653402 "2013-03-19T22:41:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 50
**Author:** ![Bricker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2013, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reid-admits-no-support-for-assault-weapons-ban/653402/50 "2013-03-20T14:46:45Z")
> [@TriPolar](#): > > **Bricker,** show us the names of the Democratic legislators who pledged never to consider new gun control legislation and then went back on that pledge. Or admit you have no point. Either one would be fine. Since that was never my point, I don’t see why the refutation of it would serve to show that I have no point. But there are plenty of examples of legislators who strongly sold the idea, without making it a notarized oath. > [@James Webb, Scots-Irish political culture, Democrats, and gun control](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/james-webb-scots-irish-political-culture-democrats-and-gun-control/379885/1): > > Our new junior senator from Virginia wrote an article about ethnicity and U.S. politics in 2004, he used these ideas to get elected, check it out-- [http://jameswebb.com/articles/wallstjrnl/scotsirishvote.htm](http://jameswebb.com/articles/wallstjrnl/scotsirishvote.htm) > > That was an interesting article, and I think Webb understands quite well what he’s talking about. The main thing I get from it is the Democratic Party can woo the Scots-Irish as long as you don’t fuck with their guns. Number one dealbreaker is gun control, the rest is negotiable. I’m afraid we liberals will have to concede that gun control is a dead issue in America. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reid-admits-no-support-for-assault-weapons-ban/653402)._