Ok, you want to stop gun violence... VOTE

[Joinfortmill]

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/june-7-2022?s=r

'Senate Republicans have already said that they will not consider the regulations experts think are central to stopping mass shootings: an assault weapons ban such as we had until 2004, limits on ammunition magazines, and expansions of background checks to cover private gun sales are all off the table. They also say an age limit of 21 to purchase an assault-type rifle like that AR-15 is unlikely.

...Republicans who have embraced an ideology that rejects federal regulations and celebrates the idea of gun-carrying men cannot accept the gun safety rules most people want. So they are turning to extremist rhetoric. Jennifer Bendery reported in the Huffington Post that the extremist American Firearms Association warned of “tens of thousands of Bloomberg-funded, red shirt radical, commie mommies all over the Capitol complex.” Its leaders told members to prepare for “battle” at the U.S. Capitol. “They’re coming after us right now,” a fundraising email warned."

Unless we VOTE these monstrous, souless, blood-money grubbing, child-killer enablers out of office, this will only get worse. (my words)

[OrlandoDem2]

1. Until Democrats understand that politics is as much about power as it is policy and governing

we will have the same results over and over.

[TigressDem]

4. BUT it shouldn't be.

IF both sides were playing by the rules, it wouldn't be about whoever is in power OWNS the truth.

The FOURTH ESTATE, media, should be impartial and getting US the actual FACTS so WE can make informed decisions.

[Demsrule86]

5. That is exactly it. We have to get elected and all this bickering between Democrats amounts

to rearranging chairs on the decks of the Titanic. This could be the last free election if we don't win...and what have we got? We have nasty squabbles between progressives and moderates. We need both in order to hold a majority.

The big tent is the only way we have ever had a significant majority...so Democrats need to stop threatening not to vote if they don't get what they want immediately. That sort of thing has left us on the brink of destruction and pretty much guarantees that we get nothing. I suggest we put aside petty differences and vote as if our lives depend upon it because I think they do.

[Joinfortmill]

8. Amen.

[TigressDem]

2. Yet another GOOD REASON to VOTE k&r

[Woodswalker]

3. D across the board

[Hortensis]

6. This. Voting, honestly informed, is everyone's moral duty.

None of this could have come to pass if only a few more percent did their duty.

[sop]

7. Voting a straight Democratic ticket used to be the norm back when middle and working class

voters understood exactly what the Republican party stood for and who they represented.

[Joinfortmill]

9. Yes!