Tim Walz's NRA rating went from A to F. It's part of a shift from Democrats on guns

Tim Walz's NRA rating went from A to F. It's part of a shift from Democrats on guns toggle caption Grace Widyatmadja/NPR Tim Walz addressed something head-on at the Democratic National Convention last month, as he accepted the party's nomination for vice president — it was guns. He says if you want to see the change in the party over time, you just have to look at a forum his group toggle caption Grace Widyatmadja/NPR “And they all showed up on, like, four days’ notice and they were all trying to outdo one another on who could have the most robust gun safety policy,” he said. I’m not going to any longer accept your false choice that you’re either in favor of the Second Amendment or you want to take everyone’s guns away,’ and that we need reasonable gun safety laws in this country, including universal background checks and a renewal of the assault weapons ban.” The shift in the party came over years At a side panel during the Democratic National Convention, two unlikely groups came together for a joint event titled: “Protecting Future Generations: The Power of Reproductive Rights and Gun Safety on the Ballot.” It’s not an obvious choice to put abortion and guns side by side as campaign issues. These days you don’t often hear Democrats talk about gun control — the phrase you hear is “freedom from violence.” And for Whitmer, these language choices matter and could be a way Democrats shift views.