When people are reminded of party stalwarts such as Homer Cummings and Thomas Dodd making careers pushing gun control and handgun bans from the New Deal to the Great Society. It is rough when the party's most "incisive minds" on gun control get millions of hits on You-tube highlighting complete and monumental technical incompetence.
It's just hard to reconcile that while Eleanor Roosevelt had a concealed carry permit and regularly shot her .38 caliber revolver her husband did all he could, both as the Governor of New York and as President to preempt any challenge to New York's Sullivan Law.
Then, of course, there IS the recent history of the Assault Weapons Ban. The fact that gun control is
still a plank in the official party platform. Or even that brain dead bit of duplicitous sophistry:
"As a long-time resident and elected official of Chicago, Barack Obama has seen the impact of fully automatic weapons in the hands of criminals. Thus, Senator Obama supports making permanent the expired federal Assault Weapon Ban."
Again, how much more directly or more plainly can he say he wants to reinstate a ban on semiautomatic weapons by implying they are machine-guns?
There can only be two explanations for making that statement. It was a deliberate attempt to deceive people who don't know the difference. Or he doesn't know the difference himself. Deceit or dumb-ass, take your pick!
The problem is the Party's blue blood leadership's slavish devotion to gun control makes for tough choices among the gun-owning, hard-working, blue collar core.