Even though the Democratic Party is generally wrong on nearly every issue today, not all Democrats are.

Brian Sikma reports:

Amid a raft of new gun restrictions proposed by Democratic lawmakers in the Wisconsin legislature, one Democratic state representative has had enough. State Rep. Nick Milroy, an avid sportsman and Democrat from northern Wisconsin, is tired of his colleagues proposing new gun control measures. Milroy’s frustration with his own party found outlet on Facebook where, on Monday, the lawmaker blasted fellow Democrats Lisa Subeck, Terese Berceau, and Melissa Sargent who have lately introduced plans to repeal statewide concealed carry, make it a felony to store a firearm outside of a gun safe or without a trigger lock, and require all gun sales in the state to include a trigger lock.

Responding to a post on state Rep. Adam Jarchow’s (R) Facebook page about Rep. Subeck’s (D) plan to make it a felony to store a gun outside of a safe or without a trigger lock, Milroy complained, “the bill is nutty (and it will never see the light of day).”

It is true that in the Republican-controlled the legislature there is practically zero chance any of the Democrats recent gun proposals will get even so much as a committee hearing. But by pounding the issue with press releases and by introducing legislation proposing various gun restrictions, state Democrats are ensuring that the gun debate gets some front-and-center attention headed into the November election.

That’s bad news for Democrats, and Milroy seems to know that.

“I guess you can concern yourself with a lone wolf anti-gun Madison liberal whose bills have no chance in hell of passing regardless of who is in control,” Milroy told another Facebook user. But it’s not a stretch to believe that if – and that’s a big “if” – Democrats did sweep control of the state legislature they’d take up gun control legislation.

Wisconsin Democrats have passionately answered President Barack Obama’s call for tougher gun restrictions and a curtailing of gun freedoms by couching their proposals as a response to the “public health epidemic” that is gun violence.

“It seriously pisses me off [sic] when my colleagues put bills out like this. Especially when they don’t know anything about guns,” Milroy concluded.

Presidential election years typically result in higher Democratic voter turnout in Wisconsin, and that means that while the GOP may still retain its majority in the state Assembly while losing only a couple of seats, control of the state Senate is very much up for grabs. One issue guaranteed to help Republicans running for state office in competitive districts, however, is guns.

Already Badger state Democrats have had one false-start with their anti-gun proposals. In November of 2015 a trio of Democratic lawmakers introduced a plan that would have made most pistols and many popular rifles and shotguns illegal in Wisconsin. Media Trackers broke that story and in the wake of the subsequent public outcry, the three Democrats retreated from their legislation.

In 2013, two Colorado state senators, including the Senate president, were recalled after Democrats there enacted a high capacity magazine ban. In one Colorado senate recall election a significant number of Democrats signed a recall petition that ultimately led to the removal of a Democrat from office. A Republican was elected in his stead. A third Democratic state senator resigned rather than face a recall election over her anti-gun vote.

Last year, anti-gun groups spending heavily in Virginia state senate races allowed Republicans to make guns a central issue of the campaign, and retain their Senate majority.

In what could be a challenging election year, Wisconsin Republicans likely welcome all of these Democrat anti-gun proposals.

If I were to say that Madison Democrats are idiots, I would be right far more often than I would be wrong. Subeck, Berceau and Sargent all have the “D–Madison” suffix on their names. (Sargent represents the Assembly district where I grew up, which should help explain one reason I don’t live there anymore.) Their U.S. senator, Tammy Baldwin, is on record as claiming the First Amendment isn’t an individual right, so perhaps their contempt for our constitutional rights shouldn’t be surprising.

For those who complain about excess partisanship, this brings an observation to mind outside the political theater of proposing something that has zero chance of passage given current political realities. One assumes either Subeck, Berceau and Sargent believe the anti-gun crap their president is spewing, or they believe their urban Madison constituents believe the anti-gun crap their president is spewing.

Milroy, however, represents a considerably geographically larger Assembly district, the Superior area, where, apparently unlike in Madison, people do hunt and take their Second Amendment rights seriously. Perhaps if we had fewer state legislators and therefore larger legislative districts, elected officials might consider the opposing side’s views more seriously, unlike Subeck, Berceau and Sargent. (And, by the way, eliminating the state Assembly would save almost $5 million in annual legislative salaries.)