{"id":2643,"date":"2013-01-18T15:41:00","date_gmt":"2013-01-18T15:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/2013\/01\/18\/nc-democrat-party-doesnt-get-i\/"},"modified":"2019-08-16T18:20:41","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T18:20:41","slug":"nc-democrat-party-doesnt-get-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=2643","title":{"rendered":"NC Democrat Party Doesn&#8217;t Get It"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:14404,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.ncgunblog.com\\\/2013\\\/01\\\/17\\\/nc-democrat-party-says-they-want-to-ban-your-guns&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.ncgunblog.com\\\/2013\\\/01\\\/17\\\/nc-democrat-party-says-they-want-to-ban-your-guns&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>\nDemocrats in North Carolina took it on the chin in the 2012 elections. They lost the governorship, the lieutenant governorship, many seats in Congress, and stand at less than one-third of the members of each house of the General Assembly. Given that you&#8217;d think that they would be trying to establish positions that would help them regain lost ground.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncgunblog.com\/2013\/01\/17\/nc-democrat-party-says-they-want-to-ban-your-guns\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sean at An NC Gun Blog reports<\/a> on how they just don&#8217;t get it. Clay Pittman, press secretary for the NC Democrat Party, issued a rambling, stream of consciousness, release attacking Gov. Pat McCrory for calling the gun prohibitionists &#8220;foolish&#8221; for their efforts to enact a new &#8220;assault weapons&#8221; (sic) ban. As McCrory correctly points out, all it is doing is increasing gun sales.<\/p>\n<p>When Sean pressed Pittman on his statistics and position, he got a reply that said to check the NCDP party platform and that the state party will support Obama&#8217;s gun control agenda. He said what Democrat members of the General Assembly do is up to them.<\/p>\n<p>I think Sean&#8217;s suggestion to write and call Democrat state senators and representatives to ask if they support this policy is a good one. My own state representative, Joe Sam Queen, is the only Democrat left in the General Assembly west of Asheville. I think one of the reasons he survived this election is because he wasn&#8217;t bad on guns. He isn&#8217;t great but he isn&#8217;t bad either.<\/p>\n<p>So if you live in North Carolina and have a Democrat state senator or representative now is the time to put them on the spot. Force them to either agree with Pittman&#8217;s statement or disavow it. If they agree with it, make sure they are targeted in 2014.<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democrats in North Carolina took it on the chin in the 2012 elections. They lost the governorship, the lieutenant&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[45,3388,803],"class_list":["post-2643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-gun-control","tag-nc-democrat-party","tag-sean-sorrentino"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2643"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8752,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2643\/revisions\/8752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}