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Originally Posted by cthulu23
I didn't say that gun control had no affect but I don't think that you can lay the credit at the feet of a SINGLE issue for either the "Republican Revolution" or whatever states Gore lost.
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You want to piss off a couple of a million voters in one fell swoop? Gun control is the way to do it. Why do you think Kerry is backpeddling on gun control so furiously with his "dead goose" and "dead pheasant" photo-ops?
Look at the numbers. There are around 100 million gun owners in the US. By law, they're all eligible to vote, since disqualifications for gun ownership are also largely disqualifications for voting. If only 10% of them are against gun control, that's 10 million votes against an anti-gun candidate nation-wide. That kind of handicap is very hard to overcome.