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Want to Play Ball with the NRA? Write a Domestic Violence Bill
http://www.thetrace.org/2015/06/domestic-violence-bills-are-revealing-another-side-to-the-nra/
The NRA’s stance on such bills marks an apparent change in strategy for the group, which for years fought legislation mandating the surrender of firearms in domestic violence cases. In December, when the South Carolina Legislature introduced a bill barring some domestic abusers from having guns for life, the NRA didn’t issue an incendiary public statement. No call to action was sounded; no lawmakers were trashed in the media. But behind statehouse doors, its lobbyists took a seat at the table and quietly proposed modifications. The group has adopted a similar approach over the last few years with bills that curtailed gun rights for domestic abusers in Louisiana, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Vermont, Oregon, and Washington state.
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“You can’t come out and say you are for domestic violence,” Dan Schoen, a state representative from Minnesota’s Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party who successfully passed a lifetime gun ban for domestic abusers last year, tells The Trace. “If it wasn’t politically damaging to them, I am sure they wouldn’t have been as conciliatory.”
The NRA’s stance on such bills marks an apparent change in strategy for the group, which for years fought legislation mandating the surrender of firearms in domestic violence cases. In December, when the South Carolina Legislature introduced a bill barring some domestic abusers from having guns for life, the NRA didn’t issue an incendiary public statement. No call to action was sounded; no lawmakers were trashed in the media. But behind statehouse doors, its lobbyists took a seat at the table and quietly proposed modifications. The group has adopted a similar approach over the last few years with bills that curtailed gun rights for domestic abusers in Louisiana, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Vermont, Oregon, and Washington state.
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“You can’t come out and say you are for domestic violence,” Dan Schoen, a state representative from Minnesota’s Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party who successfully passed a lifetime gun ban for domestic abusers last year, tells The Trace. “If it wasn’t politically damaging to them, I am sure they wouldn’t have been as conciliatory.”
This is not to say there is no opposition to removing guns from convicted wife beaters, there are plenty of local groups to do that. Even so, the NRA is scitzoid on the issue as evidenced by their reaction to a 2014 LA domestic violence bill that I posted on here: http://www.democraticunderground.com/12628895
The NRA blocked expanding the law to "dating partners" because, and the spokesperson really said this, "it could apply after only one date." So it's OK to beat someone on the first date? Really? That's all ya got?
The NRA also objected to categorizing strangulation as an act of violence. So go ahead, choke her into unconsciousness but don't hit her unless it's on the first date, then have at it.
The NRA also objected to categorizing strangulation as an act of violence. So go ahead, choke her into unconsciousness but don't hit her unless it's on the first date, then have at it.
It takes a special kind of sick bastard to defend guns in the hands of convicted wife beaters.
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