Firearms Rights and the Political Candidate Conundrum

With each election cycle, as I fill out my ballot, all too often the choice between candidates comes down to a choice between completely unacceptable political risks, extreme risks that could invade every day life far beyond abstract politics.

At each election the major parties force me to choose between a candidate who has vowed to infringe upon my right to an abortion, or a candidate who has vowed to infringe upon my right to own a firearm. Until now, I've voted for the party that promises to protect: 

• freedom of abortion rights
• freedom of same sex marriage rights
• freedom of racial/ethnic civil rights

 wondering how and why the Democratic Party went so wrong that it doesn't see that: 

• freedom of firearm ownership rights

exists on an equal footing with the other rights the party evangelizes. Since the political topic of firearm rights infringement hadn't arisen last fall, or had been dismissed as a non-issue by candidates, I voted for Democrats. Then along came the recent moment for opportunistic gun ban zealot politicians to show their true colors. The gun ban zealot faction has spared no effort in their attempts to exploit a rare and isolated incident in every way they can imagine. The result has been an all out siege upon gun ownership rights in America, by gun grabbing politicians at both the state and national level. 

That the Democratic Party isn't the party standing tall for America's fundamentally foundational constitutional right to keep and bear arms, seems like proof that politics is irrational and politicians are completely illogical, unreliable, and incompetent. If Democrats would change their mind on this one most important of issues in American politics they would have a chance to lord over the Republicans indefinitely. But instead, the Democratic Party has chosen to attack one of America's founding principles, firearm rights, desecrating a right that was once held a sacrosanct status among American values.

That the Democrats have taken a stance that they intend to eviscerate the second amendment, politicians within the state of Washington’s constitutional firearm rights clause, and in other states including Colorado, all risk a repeat of the November 1994 political bloodletting in which most politicians across the U.S. who voted for the 1994 federal gun ban statute lost their seats to candidates who vowed to repeal it and who vowed to never allow such legislation to become law again.