When you're so emotionally invested in guns that issues around healthcare, civil rights, and erosions to our democratic-republic becomes irrelevant if the person/party has the audacity to signal a willingness to close the private sale loophole and take a few novelty guns out of public circulation.
To me guns are civil rights and also a human right though, which you don't seem to understand. And Beto wants to ban "assault rifles", so definitely not anything novelty. I find the Democratic answer for their reasons for assault rifle gun bans wanting, so I won't be voting for Beto, especially in a time of such social division.
I mean, you admit yourself here,"erosions to our democratic-republic" which is precisely why someone should not support any gun ban. It's like you can't put two and two together. I don't want any gun ban *because* of the erosion in our democracy.
Ah yes, I need my guns more than ever because I am going to continue to stand aside while the party I confer that benefit to tears our democracy and civic rights down further and further. Interesting logic lol
Honestly though, I respect you as a person Cindi, but even my patience left me some time ago trying to reason with you on American gun politics and how you clearly let that drive you around in the rest of your politics. I don't know what it is about a large swath of gun enthusiasts, but it seems once they get hooked on that endorphin rush, facts, logic, and a rational balancing of political equities just exits the topic equation forever.
Democrats have also warped our democracy. Assaulting Trump supporters, stealing kids MAGA hats, blocking White House staff aides from eating at their restraunt and then later following and harassing their family when they go to a different restaurant, US congresswoman calling for US citizens to harass political enemies. These are democrats.
In no way am I pardoning Republican either. They don’t want to come to the table or admit they’ve contributed to the current divide as much as democrats (protests that have Obama being lynched for instance).
You are blind if you think any one party is wholly responsible for a breach in our democratic process.
And what I’m referring to is a looming threat of civil war. When politicians demand political enemies be harassed civility has gone completely out of the window. If foreign powers have meddled with US elections talking about gun bans is one of the most illogical things you could do. Democrats say a second civil war won’t happen. Just like how they said Hillary would win by a landslide or that Russia wasn’t a threat. And that’s why I refuse to vote for any Democrat that supports any kind of gun ban. They can get fucked. If a civil war happens I want to be armed.
As for logic, democrats are hardly logical about the issue and do not use anything in the way of facts.
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They are only talking about banning the only weapon to be used in every mass shooting this decade. Not all guns.
Every?
Democrats have no facts in regards to the issue and they know it, which is why they use emotion and false information rather than facts.
As for why there’s a change in thought it’s all about mindset. You clearly have a greater capacity than me to believe in humanity. I think humanity is broken and inherently sinful. Nothing will ever fix humanity. We will get better as time goes on but man will remain man, and inherently sinful. Therefore I am of the mind that we should be prepared at all times to face against mans greatest threat: man. It’s a cynical worldview. You on the other hand are an idealist.
