the not-so-sweet 16

In one of the United States' most lopsided gun votes in the nation's recent history, there was broad, bi-partisan support for a recent pro-gun bill in the Senate. 

Of the entire senate, a measly 16 Senators voted against Senator Vitter's legislation to prohibit the usage of taxpayer funds from the Homeland Security Appropriations Bill to be used for the purpose of confiscating lawfully owned guns in the event of an emergency, such as what occurred in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. 

They were all democrats: 

Akaka (D-HI)
Boxer (D-CA)
Clinton (D-NY)
Dodd (D-CT)
Durbin (D-IL)
Feinstein (D-CA)
Harkin (D-IA)
Inouye (D-HI)
Kennedy (D-MA)
Lautenberg (D-NJ)
Levin (D-MI)
Menendez (D-NJ)
Mikulski (D-MD)
Reed (D-RI)
Sarbanes (D-MD)
Schumer (D-NY)

Of all times to confiscate weapons, though they are all bad, the period directly after a disaster with widespread lawlessness when self-defense is most crucial, is most certainly one of the worst to choose.  These 16 democrats stuck with their anti-gun, anti-2nd amendment convictions and voted against this legislation. 

All OTHER 28 democrats in the senate, joined by every one of the 55 republicans voted for this common sense legislation. 

>>21 (21 continuing)

Take a look at this: 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayne_LaPierre

The situation was the same in 04.  The dems put forth a candidate who was opposed to gun rights, and the same thing happened.  This further supports my previous conclusion made in post 21.

"As a leading speaker for the NRA LaPierre, citing Democratic candidate John Kerry's history of authorship and support for gun control bills, campaigned against the senator in the 2004 Presidential elections. In the 2004 presidential campaign the NRA worked to support Republican President George W. Bush after making a determination that Bush was the candidate closest to their position on gun control policies."

-wikipedia article

You can't blame the gun rights folks for standing up for their interests.  They are just like you standing up for your interests.  You CAN however blame the dems for irritating them enough that they'd vote for and endorse a candidate as shitty as GWB (George W. Bush) for the sake of ensuring their freedoms don't get encroached upon any further. 

The NRA is a non-partisan organization.  All they care about is performance of the candidate.  They will support dems who are supportive of gun rights.  Had the democrats had a more pro-gun outlook, (or at least not had such a horribly anti-gun outlook) they wouldn't have gotten beaten up so bad the last several elections, and the gays wouldn't have lost their rights.