At the risk of sounding repetitive...

[PCIntern]

I’m going to repeat something a friend of mine told me many years ago.

He was an eastern liberal fellow living in central Pennsylvania. He stated unequivocally that if a candidate showed up and not only promised, but absolutely could deliver jobs, schools, new infrastructure, road improvements, better cable and electricity delivery, and allow the place to be a center for growth and development, but he was against the private ownership of bazookas and tanks, he would lose the election in a landslide without question.

[AndyS]

2. That is no longer true. Gun regulation is a winning platform. nt

[PCIntern]

3. Not in rural Williamsport, PA

[Elessar Zappa]

5. Even in rural areas there's widespread support for red flag laws.

Something like 90% of the country wants them.

[Midnight Writer]

7. I live in a "Second Amendment Sanctuary" county. Regulation won't win around here.

And we had a school shooting in the High School cafeteria in 2017. And a few drive-bys with multiple victims. And a massacre by an 18-year-old who killed five children who were siblings of his 16-year-old girlfriend because he wanted to be alone with her. And a rampage by a meth head who shot six people, including two cops.

All this mayhem just made people decide we need more guns for self-defense.

[Torchlight]

4. Unfortunately, I agree. We have an unacknowledged sacred cow in America.

I hope we find a method, and soon, to face this like adults. But to date, at least during the last 30 years, I've watched the conversation willfully ignored by the very people who can affect the needed change. And the meek cower in righteous silence, chiding those who speak out.

The tragedy happens. And invariably, Very Important People tell us from behind pedestals Things Have to Change and We're Doing Everything We Can. And a week passes. And the tragedy happens again. And nothing changes at all.

And I have really no firm idea what is to be done.

[LexVegas]

6. Virginia would immediately go red across the board if 2nd amendment rights are threatened. nt