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Kevin O'Holleran, who managed Mark Herring's campaign for Virginia attorney general, writes
in the Washington Post that gun control was the key to his narrow win.

"Political conventional wisdom has it that in a purple state, such as Virginia, support for
gun-safety legislation is best played down. As manager of Mark Herring's campaign for attorney
general, I got a lot of advice. One of the things I heard most frequently was that we should
soft-pedal his strong record and advocacy for sensible gun legislation. It would hurt us outside
of Northern Virginia and wasn't a voting issue within the Beltway, I was told. Like much
conventional wisdom, this was wrong -- and we not only ignored this advice but did the opposite."

Quoted from GrahamBonnet

That and the libertarian, who as we know REALLY WANTS GUN CONTROL

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http://www.lp.org/issues/gun-laws

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Background Checks Kept 72 Criminals From Buying A Gun In Colorado

Colorado's new Background Check Law is working.   Of the 4,792 background checks
on private sales that were performed since the law went into effect, "72 sales were
blocked because the would-be buyer was convicted of or charged with a serious crime,
or was under a domestic restraining order."

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* Guns used 2.5 million times a year in self-defense. Law-abiding citizens use guns to defend themselves against criminals as many as 2.5 million times every year -- or about 6,850 times a day. [1] This means that each year, firearms are used more than 80 times more often to protect the lives of honest citizens than to take lives. [2]

* Of the 2.5 million times citizens use their guns to defend themselves every year, the overwhelming majority merely brandish their gun or fire a warning shot to scare off their attackers. Less than 8% of the time, a citizen will kill or wound his/her attacker.[3]

* As many as 200,000 women use a gun every year to defend themselves against sexual abuse.[4]

* Even anti-gun Clinton researchers concede that guns are used 1.5 million times annually for self-defense. According to the Clinton Justice Department, there are as many as 1.5 million cases of self-defense every year. The National Institute of Justice published this figure in 1997 as part of "Guns in America" -- a study which was authored by noted anti-gun criminologists Philip Cook and Jens Ludwig.[5]

* Armed citizens kill more crooks than do the police. Citizens shoot and kill at least twice as many criminals as police do every year (1,527 to 606).[6] And readers of Newsweek learned that "only 2 percent of civilian shootings involved an innocent person mistakenly identified as a criminal. The 'error rate' for the police, however, was 11 percent, more than five times as high."[7]

* Handguns are the weapon of choice for self-defense. Citizens use handguns to protect themselves over 1.9 million times a year. [8] Many of these self-defense handguns could be labeled as "Saturday Night Specials."

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Another dangerous democrat-socialist

Time to round them up and jail them for their socialist beliefs

http://www.news.com.au/world/t.....dir2ev-1226783250108

Quoted from BuckStrider