Brady Post-Election Report: Supporters Of Sensible Gun Laws Won, Gun Lobby Lost, Gun Issue Lost Its "Wedge"

Across the country, from the Presidential chase to U.S. Senate, U.S. House and accompaniment races, voters adopted candidates acknowledging alive gun laws, while gun antechamber letters application anachronous alarm approach about government access of privately-owned accoutrements fell flat, and millions spent by the National Rifle Association went to waste. Guns & The 2008 Elections: Common Sense Gun Laws Won, The NRA Lost, & What it Means We apperceive of no political applicant at any level, in any race, who absent because they accurate alive gun laws The voters ambition to apprehend businesslike proposals to abate gun abandon and they apperceive that alive gun laws won't aching accepted gun owners. After yet addition acclamation in which voters alone abundant candidates in high-profile contest who had arresting NRA abutment and NRA money, it's time for politicians and pundits to adios the allegory that talking about reasonable restrictions on accoutrements is alarmingly controversial This address makes the case that acknowledging reasonable limitations on gun buying is acute politics.

Washington, DC (Vocus/PRWEB ) November 7, 2008 -- Across the country, from the Presidential chase to U.S. Senate, U.S. House and accompaniment races, voters adopted candidates acknowledging alive gun laws, while gun antechamber letters application anachronous alarm approach about government access of privately-owned accoutrements fell flat, and millions spent by the National Rifle Association went to waste.

How the gun affair played in this acclamation - and formed to the account of the majority of Americans that ambition to accomplish it harder for alarming humans to get alarming weapons - is advised in a appropriate post-election address accepting appear today by the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence.

Entitled "Guns & The 2008 Elections: Common Sense Gun Laws Won, The NRA Lost, & What it Means," the 30-page appraisal focuses on state-by-state acclamation after-effects in contest with Brady and NRA-backed candidates and systematically reviews what happened in states with top gun ownership, and in states area the NRA ran television advertisements. It advance the NRA's expenditures and approach from the Presidential primaries through the accepted election, and examines the Obama campaign's letters and comments on the gun issue, including the abominable "bitter-gate" controversy.

"We apperceive of no political applicant at any level, in any race, who absent because they accurate alive gun laws," said Paul Helmke, President of the Brady Campaign. "The voters ambition to apprehend businesslike proposals to abate gun abandon and they apperceive that alive gun laws won't aching accepted gun owners."

The report: http://www.bradycenter.org/xshare/pdf/reports/guns-2008election.pdf

The actuality that President-elect Barack Obama and Vice President-Elect Joe Biden, as able-bodied as added supporters of alive gun laws in U.S. Senate, U.S. House and accompaniment races, won assuredly - including in states with abundant ante of gun buying - shows that abutment for accepted faculty gun laws is a acceptable bulletin and not a alarming political "wedge issue" to be abhorred by alert politicians, the address argues. Some of those results:

 

More than 90 percent of Brady Campaign accustomed candidates civic won their elections.
 
In U.S. Senate races, Brady accustomed candidates won 10 out of 10 races.
 
In U.S. House races, Brady accustomed candidates won added than 90 percent of their races.
The address shows that the NRA was one of the better losers in the 2008 elections:

 

The NRA spent over thirty-one times added money adjoin Obama than it spent in its abrogating efforts in 2000 adjoin Al Gore.
 
In head-to-head contest amid candidates accustomed or "A" rated by the NRA and candidates accustomed by the Brady Campaign, Brady candidates won added than 80 percent (including eight of eight U.S. Senate races).
 
The NRA spent over 90 percent of its absolute expenditures in Senate contest on accident candidates (for elections alleged as of this morning).
"After yet addition acclamation in which voters alone abundant candidates in high-profile contest who had arresting NRA abutment and NRA money, it's time for politicians and pundits to adios the allegory that talking about reasonable restrictions on accoutrements is alarmingly controversial," Helmke said. "This address makes the case that acknowledging reasonable limitations on gun buying is acute politics."

As the nation's largest, non-partisan, grassroots alignment arch the action to anticipate gun violence, the Brady Campaign, with its committed arrangement of Million Mom March Chapters, works to achieve and accomplish alive gun laws, regulations and accessible policies. The Brady Campaign is adherent to creating an America chargeless from gun violence, area all Americans are safe at home, at school, at work, and in our communities.

Visit the Brady Campaign website at www.bradycampaign.org. For continuing acumen and animadversion on the gun issue, apprehend Paul Helmke's blog at www.bradycampaign.org/blog/.