House Judicary will hold an emergency markup on 8 gun bills on Thursday

[Joe Republic]

Good.  Get these GOP f-ckers' votes on record.  Even when the bills inevitably die in the Senate, do the same thing there and then run ads on it.

[Joe Republic]

If Manchin is the reason this fails, I hope he loses sleep over it for the rest of his life.

LOL!  I hear the comfiest beds are ones in which the the pillows and duvet are stuffed full of $100 bills.  They help you sleep through every imaginable moral shortcoming.

[Joe Republic]

Gun control just isn't a popular issue.

Demonstrably untrue:

Do you think there should or should not be a ban on the manufacture, possession and sale of semi-automatic guns, known as assault rifles? [2019 Aug 15-30]
Should be 61%
Should not be 38%
No opinion 1%

The midterms will be about inflation, and Dems trying to deflect from that and go after some side issue will look very obvious.

It's possible to walk and chew gum at the same time.  And referring to gun violence as "some side issue" is extremely crass.

[Joe Republic]

Stuff like background checks barely passed Nevada and failed in Maine in 2016. And those are lean Clinton states. Like OSR has stated before, the polling is one thing but when it comes to votes at the polls it doesn't translate well.

It certainly helps that the NRA is willing to pour millions of dollars (or whatever they can still afford after LaPierre's embezzlement schemes) into disinformation campaigns whenever it comes up on the ballot.

Last year, the National Rifle Association spent more money fighting a push for a universal background check for gun purchases in Nevada than it did on any Senate or House race.

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The gun group poured more than $6.6 million into opposing Question 1, making it the NRA’s second-largest campaign expenditure of 2016. The only contest that drew more funds from the gun-rights group was the presidential election, in which it invested over $30 million in support of Donald Trump.

[Joe Republic]

Whenever your side loses, it's always somebody else's fault, huh?

… The good guys won that particular ballot question, despite the NRA's best efforts to obfuscate the issue with their mountains of blood money.

What a strange and irrelevant contribution, but thanks anyway.

[Joe Republic]

When Maine voted to defeat the background check proposal, Bloomberg's orgs outspent the NRA six to one.

Indeed, and that's why there was such a backlash against Bloomberg's influence, with the "Don't NYC my Maine gun rights" becoming the rallying cry of the opposition to that particular ballot measure.  Dumping mountains of cash into any campaign - on either side - only serves to skew how people actually feel about an issue… and unfortunately at the exact time that it truly matters.