After downplaying the issue for most of the past two decades, Democrats in Congress and on the presidential campaign trail are advancing their most ambitious ideas to control access to firearms since at least the 2000 election, and arguably ever | Analysis
After downplaying the issue for most of the past two decades, Democrats in Congress and on the presidential campaign trail are now advancing their most ambitious ideas to control access to firearms since at least the 2000 election, and arguably ever.
But just as with Clinton's failed proposals following Columbine, the momentum carried into the next presidential race: Hillary Clinton ran in 2016 on the most ambitious gun control agenda of any Democrat since Gore in 2000, and stressed the issue far more than he had.Strikingly, even Trump's 2016 victory, with his massive margins among rural and working-class white voters, didn't squash the renewed interest in gun control among Democrats.
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