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Democrats need to be more extreme on guns


steveTA84

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Yup, theyre not extreme enough and gotta do more. Read the whole article

 

https://www.vox.com/platform/amp/policy-and-politics/2019/7/1/18683860/democrats-2020-gun-control-mass-shootings#click=https://t.co/TFxr1tfnbI

 

The first Democratic debates crystallized how far Democrats have moved to the left on all sorts of issues over the past few years. Candidates for the presidency advocated for single-payer health care, a Green New Deal, free college, 70 percent taxes on the ultrawealthy, decriminalizing crossing the border without papers, and upholding reproductive justice.

 

But theres one issue, even as its gotten more attention, where major Democratic politicians havent moved much: guns. When it came up in the debates, candidates raised the same ideas theyve had for decades: universal background checks, an assault weapons ban, and generally keeping guns away from dangerous people. Only Cory Booker, who brought up his gun licensing plan, and Eric Swalwell, who pointed to his assault weapons confiscation program, broke new ground on the issue receiving little support from others on stage (although some candidates have backed licensing elsewhere).

To change the status quo, Democrats should go big. They need to focus on the abundance of guns in the US and develop a suite of policies that directly tackle that issue, from licensing to confiscation to more aggressive bans of certain kinds of firearms (including, perhaps, all semiautomatic weapons or at least some types of handguns).

 

I am not naive. I dont think that this would lead to sweeping Australian- or UK-style gun control legislation passing in 2021. But this broader conversation has to start somewhere.

 

The time is now. The NRA is in chaos, as its leadership is caught in a civil war. The Parkland, Florida, activists have forced guns into the spotlight. A recent Morning Consult poll found that Democratic voters put gun violence second only to climate change as the issue they wanted to hear about in the first debates.

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That is a perfect recipe for the Democrats losing the House and the Republicans keeping the Senate in 2020. If they want to throw the election, let them.

 

However, Trump only won because he promoted a pro-2nd amendment platform on the campaign trail. Too bad that his policies have been anything but that.

 

Agreed. About the only good thing (besides judges) hes done is rip up the symbolic UN small arms treaty. That said, Trump > any dem candidate for 2020
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If they only belong on battlefields, what are they doing by the thousands at the CMP Camp Perry competition and 3 gun events all across the nation?

Not to mention in every LE patrol vehicle... To buy something back, it first has to be for sale...

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A liberal friend just posted a big YAY on Facebook after the ACLU won a ruling in favor of due process with regard to amnesty hearings for illegal aliens.

 

So, the left understands due process, they just choose to ignore it for matters where American citizens have enumerated Constitutional rights.

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A liberal friend just posted a big YAY on Facebook after the ACLU won a ruling in favor of due process with regard to amnesty hearings for illegal aliens.

 

So, the left understands due process, they just choose to ignore it for matters where American citizens have enumerated Constitutional rights.

Liberals want the constitution applied to illegals but not legals.

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