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[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (6 children)
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[–] [email protected] 37 points 6 months ago (6 children)

I dunno, it didn't work out so well for Beto.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago (4 children)

Biden speed-running losing the election.

At this point all Trump has to do is pretend this didn't phase him, then not say anything too stupid and I'm sure Biden will do his best to just hand it over.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Guessing you dont like the Supreme Court reforms he just announced either?

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[–] [email protected] 181 points 6 months ago (45 children)

Biden is doing this to drive a wedge into Republicans. The gun nuts and the ones that don't care about guns will have differing opinions because now gun violence affects them directly. It's really smart.

Biden looks presidential. Trump has three choices:

  1. Come out against AR-15s, for obvious reasons. This makes gun nuts less likely to vote for him.

  2. Come out in favor of AR-15s. He looks insane to Republicans who don't care about guns.

  3. Trump ignores the issue or waffles and looks unpresidential.

Number 3 is most likely. Of course the correct answer is number 4: propose a competing policy that is nuanced. But that's impossible for trump.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Trump already said he'd take away everyones guns, no questions asked, years ago. No one that supported him even blinked. This means nothing to them.

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Any of those options will work fine for Trump. He doesn’t need to have policies, strategies, or responses to anything. His voters can’t remember it anyway. You think they remember that he banned bump stocks in the first place? He could promise to ban AR-15s one day, then criticize his own proposal the next day, and he’ll just get cheered by both sides. Voters are fucking stupid.

All that matters is that he keeps the steady supply of hateful buzzwords flowing. You can’t win chess against an opponent who’s playing hungry hungry hippos.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)

All of that wastes trump's time and makes him look unprofessional to swing voters. He can't win with just his fans. That's why he lost big time in 2020. The swing voters saw him failing to respond to an actual issue.

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[–] [email protected] 81 points 6 months ago (6 children)

How many Republicans don't care about guns?

[–] [email protected] 25 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Lots of them. Do you know any Republicans? None of them care about issues that don't affect them and their families. Even other "conservative" issues. They are not driven by policy.

Only Republicans with guns care about guns. And only 50% of Republicans have guns.

https://news.gallup.com/poll/264932/percentage-americans-own-guns.aspx

They don't care about each other. Liberals care about what other liberals think. Stop thinking like someone who cares about policy.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

Not a lot but every wedge is probably worth it

[–] [email protected] 104 points 6 months ago (4 children)

The ones that are republicans for tax purposes.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Those republicans already know he's fucking crazy and they don't give a fuck what his stance is on guns.

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 6 months ago (10 children)

Is that enough to matter? And is this issue enough for them to change their vote, given the tax stuff? All the other shit Trump does certainly doesn’t matter.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

And the ones that are Republicans to fuck over everyone but the rich. They'd definitely prefer "poor folk" didn't have guns at all.

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[–] [email protected] 59 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Just as dumb as when Beto said it before his election...

It'll never pass, and he thinks saying it will get votes, but all it does is motivate idiots to vote trump, even tho he actually did an executive action to try and close a loophole.

It might not have stood, but it worked for a couple of years.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 months ago (3 children)

He thinks that because someone took a shot at trump with one, its a good time.

Biden has forgotten the whole point of 2a.

Like honestly, hes trying to throw the election at this point.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Will republicans vote in favor of protecting their candidate? Or their base's blood lust? This is a great time for Biden to put them in a hard place.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 6 months ago

The answer is simply they will hate it if Biden does it but not care if Trump does.

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[–] [email protected] 47 points 6 months ago (17 children)

I can think of literally no better reason to keep ARs legal than the events of last week.

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