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Banning guns is a losing policy for democrats. It only ever hurts them. I really wish they'd stop lighting political capital on fire with statements like this
Braindead take, is Biden gonna come to my rescue when some christofascist militia has me on my knees in front of a ditch?
Sounds like a similar argument to how christofascists justify owning military weapons. It's very disturbing from a European point of view.
Is this what your life is like?
The type of rifle isn't the problem here. If the shooter had used something better it's likely Trump wouldn't have survived.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Texas_tower_shooting
"Charles Whitman killed seventeen individuals and wounded at least thirty-one others over the course of thirteen hours before he was killed on the observation deck of the UT Tower on August 1, 1966.[72]"
And of course, infamously:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_John_F._Kennedy
“Fun” fact: those kids would be old enough to vote this year, had they not been gunned down.
Bernie had this right. Despite being pretty progressive, he wasn't for outlawing semiautomatic firearms because they were black and looked scary. He believed that the right to arms was justified. This "AR Ban" is a great way to lose a lot of independents, and even some hard D voters like myself. There are a lot of dems who carry, and a lot of them who own the very firearms he wants to ban.
He wasn't against outlawing them because they looked scary implies that he was in favor of outlawing them because they looked scary.
I think you mean he was against outlawing them because they looked scary.
If you didn't reply within 14 seconds of me correcting my post, yeah. That's what I corrected it to.
Ooh this is smart
Not sure this will make a difference for the election. At this point, I suspect that support for gun control/rights is petty well understood and priced into support for the candidates. No one expects Biden to veto gun control legislation and no one expects Trump to sign it. Granted, Trump can be a bit of a wild card sometimes (see: bump stocks reclassification).
That said, this is likely a very hollow promise. Such legislation is almost certainly a dead bill in Congress. And even if it somehow passed, it's likely not going to make it past the current Supreme Court.
At best, this is just empty rhetoric.
Meh. Our soldiers are trained on these. They are familiar. Why ban the weapon people know how to properly use and maintain?
If I want to snipe someone, I'm using a high powered hunting rifle like a .308 or 7mm.