DNC's Wasserman Schultz Explains Colorado Recall Election Defeats Over Gun Control

 Colorado Lawmakers Ousted in Recall Vote Over Gun Law

COLORADO SPRINGS — Two Colorado Democrats who provided crucial support for a package of state gun laws were voted out of office on Tuesday in special elections seen as a test of whether swing-state voters would accept gun restrictions after mass shootings at a Colorado movie theater and a Connecticut elementary school.

*How was this issue covered in May?



*Gun control was forced on the voters of Colorado and their first chance to voice their opinions on the subject finds TWO Democrats out of a job.  Voters sending a message to those that 'serve' them isn't lost on many people, unless your name is Debbie Wasserman Schultz and you are the Democrat National Committee Chairwoman. What could have happened in the recall election?

Top Dem: Colorado losses due to 'voter suppression, pure and simple'

Successful recall elections Tuesday of two Democratic state senators in Colorado were because of “voter suppression, pure and simple,” Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz said Wednesday.

Wasserman Schultz blamed lawsuits filed by opponents of gun control to prevent voters from mailing in ballots, the late announcement of polling locations, and “efforts by the NRA, the Koch brothers and other right wing groups who know that when more people vote, Democrats win.”

“The recall elections in Colorado were defined by the vast array of obstacles that special interests threw in the way of voters for the purpose of reversing the will of the legislature and the people,” Wasserman Schultz, a Democratic lawmaker from Florida, said in a statement. “This was voter suppression, pure and simple.”

 * Of course, foul play. Backers of popular measures could only lose if the NRA and the GOP cheated. Everyone knows that more gun control was very popular and these Democrats were blindsided by these recall results. Clearly the polling was in their favor. Dirty tricks are the only answer, right?

Firm suppressed Colorado recall poll

Public Policy Polling (PPP) sparked controversy Wednesday after the left-leaning firm declined to release a survey it conducted last weekend that accurately forecasted the successful recall of a Democratic state senator from Colorado.

The survey PPP conducted, but did not release, showed Colorado District 3 Sen. Angela Giron (D) would be recalled by a 54 percent to 42 percent margin.

“In a district that Barack Obama won by almost 20 points I figured there was no way that could be right and made a rare decision not to release the poll,” Director Tom Jensen wrote in a post on the firm's website. “It turns out we should have had more faith in our numbers because she was indeed recalled by 12 points.”

*It turns out the leftist polls were suppressed.

The Left Attacks Gun Rights Fast & Fuhrer-iously

Leftist trolls infest the comment boards, and thehill.com is no exception. On the subject of gun control, the poster in the image below cites misperceptions about Hitler and gun rights for the Jewish people. The left is desperate to disguise their effort as gun safety  and NOT gun control or anything 'unreasonable' . In typical leftist style, when confronted with a fact that refutes or diminishes their argument,  lie. The BIG LIE is the favorite of the left when it comes to gun control.  The following troll's post is classic propaganda technique in many ways, but the best place is just to start at the 'source' cited by the commenter 'dfstan'. I didn't receive a reply from 'dfstan' on that comment. 

Ask any Neo-Nazi, Hitler wasn't so bad. Only from a leftist.

 And, let's not forget:

“Jews (§5 of the First Regulations of the German Citizenship Law of 14 November 1935, Reichsgesetzblatt I, p. 1333) are prohibited from acquiring, possessing, and carrying firearms and ammunition, as well as truncheons or stabbing weapons. Those now possessing weapons and ammunition are at once to turn them over to the local police authority.”

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The Leftist propaganda machine is well funded through foundations and donors The media is an extenstion of Big Government and the Democrat party. Academia and 'community organizations' target the low information Obama supporters with a constant barrage of disinformation and calls to action. Gun Control is just the latest example.


The left uses emotional appeals and outright LIES to push for gun control.

The 40% of Guns Purchased Without a Background Check LIE

The Gunshow Loophole LIE is REPEATED Over and Over in the media. The Sunday talkshow panels and moderators like Chris Wallace @foxnewssunday were willing to repeat this discredited Bloomberg TALKING POINT.

"There's a loophole where you can sell guns without a background check … 40 percent of guns are sold that way" 

It has been repeated over and over. Surely it must be true?

Politifact rates Bloomberg's Claim as mostly true.
Politifact Rates Bloomberg's Claim Mostly True

In conclusion they write:

"Our ruling

Mayor Bloomberg said 40 percent of gun sales take place through gun shows or the Internet.

The best information on the informal gun market is based on a survey and is about 15 years old. Current regulations don't allow direct tallies of sales of this sort. An undercover investigation found a great deal of internet activity, but it was sponsored by a mayor who seeks greater regulation. Groups opposed to greater regulation were asked to rebut the mayor's assertion and did not respond."

WH and main stream media push the same PREPLANNED agenda. Parrots and propaganda. Video
 
What is the hard science behind this 1997 report, based on a 1994 random telephone survey, that Bloomberg cites to say 40 percent of gun purchases made without a background check. 1997 Study that Bloomberg Cites for the 40 Percent Statistic

The left consists of faux intellectuals eager to engage in dishonesty Video

Politifact even adds another study to back up Bloomberg's 40%  'Cliff Clavinoid' about guns. Bloomberg says in 1997 the figure was 40 percent. Now more than a decade later, add in the internet. and Bloomberg's number is still 40 percent.

New York City's 'Point, Click, Shoot' is another laughable study cited by politifacts to back up Bloomberg's claims. Junk Science at a new level
The Study Cited by Politifacts Called 'Point Click Shoot' 

 An undercover investigation found a great deal of internet activity, but it was sponsored by a mayor who seeks greater regulation......  Politifact

My favorite part of the PCS report is after building their strawman of anecdotes and innuendo, they do include the following quote

      'Private sellers no matter where  they are selling  are prohibited from “engaging in the business” of selling guns, or from repeatedly selling for the purpose of profit. Nor can they sell to an individuals they know to be, or have reason to believe may be, a prohibited purchaser – for example, if the buyer indicates that he or she probably could  not pass a background check. '

More importantly:

 Federally licensed dealers must verify that a buyer has not been convicted of a serious crime or
declared mentally incompetent or is blocked for any of about 10 reasons. Typically this is done online and takes less than a day- and a waiting period may apply.

 Interstate Sale and Shipping - the seller must ship the gun from a licensed dealer in the seller’s state to a licensed dealer in the buyer’s state. After the buyer completes paperwork and passes a background check at his local dealer, he or she may take possession of the gun.-and a waiting period may apply.

Seventeen States REQUIRE Background Checks for Handgun Purchases at Gun Shows, among them Seven that REQUIRE Checks for ANY Kind of FireARM Purchase, Including Rifles and Shotguns.

All Licensed FireArms Dealers are REQUIRED TO Do a Background Check.

 Reminder - Politifacts:

Our ruling

Mayor Bloomberg said 40 percent of gun sales take place through gun shows or the Internet.

The best information on the informal gun market is based on a survey and is about 15 years old. Current regulations don’t allow direct tallies of sales of this sort

The left does not utilize current gun laws, yet they seek populist appeal in passing even more restrictions as part of the 'opportunity of crisis', narratives or MEMES and to maintain power.   Chicago leads in murders with STRICT gun control.


 Update: On January 17 2013 NRO RUNS THIS   Gun Sales and Background Checks: Obama’s Bogus 40 Percent Stat

Mayor Bloomberg's Gun Banning Groups Push Loophole LIE

Chicago set a gruesome record this year.  U.S. Murder Rate Declines, But Chicago's Goes Up
 Chicago marks 500 homicides   Some important background on guns and crime follows........
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Chicago gangs don’t have to go far to buy guns

 BY FRANK MAIN Staff Reporter August 26, 2012 7:16PM  Chicago Sun Times

Updated: September 28, 2012 6:13AM

Chicago Tribune Photo of Crime Scene

You might think the Deep South is the biggest source of the firearms in the hands of Chicago’s criminals.

Maybe you heard about the less-restrictive gun laws in the South or the high-profile cases the feds have brought against gun traffickers moving weapons from Mississippi and other states to Chicago — the Dixie pipeline.

But the truth is most guns recovered in crimes here were originally bought in Illinois.

More specifically, in Cook County.

And the No. 1 supplier of those weapons is just a short drive from Chicago, Chuck’s Gun Store in south suburban Riverdale.

From 2008 to March 2012, the police successfully traced the ownership of 1,375 guns recovered in crimes in Chicago within a year of their purchase.

Of those guns, 268 were bought at Chuck’s — nearly one in five.

That statistic comes from a groundbreaking study by University of Chicago Crime Lab researchers, done at the request of the Chicago Police Department, which is grappling with an extra-violent 2012 that has seen a 28 percent spike in the city’s homicide total compared to this time last year.

 and this:

 In an interview with the Chicago Sun-Times, a South Side gang member admitted he and his crew almost exclusively arm themselves with stolen guns because they can’t afford to buy new ones. Some of those guns, he said, are stolen from freight trains sitting in South Side rail yards. Others are swiped from gun stores

 Crackdown using current laws?

Asked for statistics on how many gun cases ATF has submitted to prosecutors in recent years, a local spokesman for the agency referred the Sun-Times to a Syracuse University system that tracks federal prosecutions.

It showed the ATF office for the Northern District of Illinois had a decline in weapons prosecutions from fiscal year 2010 to 2011, and the trend was expected to continue the following year.

Nationally, there’s been “a shifting emphasis toward drug-related investigations,” according to the analysis.

 What about punishing 'Strawman' purchases? (People without criminal records who buy guns for     felons)

Over the past five years, meanwhile, prosecutors have shifted their strategy involving gun cases, according to records and interviews.

The U.S. attorney’s office is no longer prosecuting most locally based gun cases involving straw purchasing. Instead, federal prosecutors have been focusing on interstate gun-trafficking rings and on felons who have guns illegally.

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That information from the Chicago Sun Times seems to contradict the latest leftist gun ban 'factoid' 

"There's a loophole where you can sell guns without a background check … 40 percent of guns are sold that way" at gun shows and over the Internet.

Michael Bloomberg on Sunday, July 22nd, 2012 in an interview on "Face the Nation"



Mayor Bloomberg also has another gun ban group called demand a plan

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And now, the Leftist Disinformation Outfit Politifact pushes the ridiculous Bloomberg gun purchase 'Cliff Clavinoid'

Mayor Michael Bloomberg says 40 percent of guns are sold without a background check


Leftist disinfo site Politifact rates this Bloomberg statement as mostly true. Now we know it is completely FALSE

After a rather lengthy 'fact check' politifact ends with this....

Mayor Bloomberg said 40 percent of gun sales take place through gun shows or the Internet.

The best information on the informal gun market is based on a survey and is about 15 years old. Current regulations don’t allow direct tallies of sales of this sort. An undercover investigation found a great deal of internet activity, but it was sponsored by a mayor who seeks greater regulation. Groups opposed to greater regulation were asked to rebut the mayor’s assertion and did not respond.
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Bloomberg's Point Click and Fire even contains this DOOZY
'Buying from an in-state private seller: Private sales to in-state buyers are almost completely unregulated by federal law. No background check and no record of sale are required. Sellers typically ship the guns by mail or meet the buyer in person'  Unregulated By Federal Law? Hardly.

 Beyond these rules, private sellers – no matter where
they are selling – are prohibited from “engaging in the
business” of selling guns, or from repeatedly selling for
the purpose of profit.21 Nor can they sell to an individual
they know to be, or have reason to believe may be, a
prohibited purchaser – for example, if the buyer indicates
that he or she probably could not pass a background
check.  Point Click and Fire

Interstate Sale and Shipping - the seller must ship the gun from a licensed dealer in the seller’s state to a licensed dealer in the buyer’s state. After the buyer completes paperwork and passes a background check at his local dealer, he or she may take possession of the gun.

 Maybe the Cato study would be a little more believable, and just a bit newer.

 According to the U.S. Department of Justice, at most 2 percent of guns used by criminals are purchased at gun shows, and most of those were purchased legally by people who passed background checks Newer Cato Study