The Left still doesn't get it about gun control...

A while back I posted this analysis about polls on the assault weapons ban. Someone over at Norbizness commented on a relatively sane Democrat who wanted to convince his party to abandon gun control as an issue, and linked to that analysis to support his opinion. It's too bad he didn't actually read the article he linked to, because it would have pointed out to him than support for gun control is based on lies.

You can lie to the people for a while, but you can't fool all of them. Gun owners know the truth. And they vote based on that truth. Daschle voted for the assault weapons ban in 2004 as an amendment to the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act, and he was instrumental in bringing that amendment to a floor vote and insisting that it not be stripped off in the House if passed. He lost his seat in the elections November 2nd, to John Thune, a very pro-gun candidate supported by the Gun Owners of America and the NRA. His loss, as Democratic minority leader in the Senate, was historic, and it occurred partially in response to that vote.

What this should tell any Democrat who is paying attention: gun owners can't be fooled by goose hunts. They'll watch how you vote and they'll vote for or against you depending on how you vote for or against them. There are a lot of people out there who support the assault weapons ban because they don't know what it is, or because they are just afraid of guns, or because they've been fooled by the media into thinking that the ban covers machine guns.

But you know what? Those people don't vote based on gun control. That makes courting them a losing proposition, because you'll lose more support from gun owners than you'll gain from gun controllers.

So let this be a lesson to you. Read what you link to, lest it come back to bite you.