Run For Office On A Platform To Melt Down All Guns

[Yallow]

I would love to see it.

Soon it will be be a more popular position than anyone can imagine.

Melt them all down.

Immediately.

(and I am a gun owner.....)

[LonePirate]

1. I would donate to that candidate.

[Yallow]

2. Americans Are Too Stupid, and Angry To Own Guns

When something goes wrong, they want to be John Wayne, and take their gun and make things right (in their mind).

Ingrained mass murder.

Our society.

Make them use knives I say.....

It is time to have the conversation.

Americans obviously can't handle deadly weapons.

Anyone with half a brain can see it.

[GGJohn]

7. Put your money where your mouth is

and run for office on that platform.
Let's see if you're right.

[Throd]

18. Then why do you claim to own one?

[branford]

52. So, your campaign platform would essentially be,

"you're too stupid and angry to do what you want, no less own guns, I know better than you, please vote for me?"

Good luck with that.

Thankfully, the Democratic Party is not so incredibly foolish as to run on a "ban all guns and melt them down" platform, no less insulting voters' intelligence, that would ensure we would be sent to the political wilderness for generations.

While you ponder new and radical ways to destroy the electability of Democrats across the country, you might want to refresh your memory concerning the actual, and far more moderate, Democratic Party Platform on firearms.

https://www.democrats.org/party-platform

Firearms. We recognize that the individual right to bear arms is an important part of the American tradition, and we will preserve Americans' Second Amendment right to own and use firearms. We believe that the right to own firearms is subject to reasonable regulation. We understand the terrible consequences of gun violence; it serves as a reminder that life is fragile, and our time here is limited and precious. We believe in an honest, open national conversation about firearms. We can focus on effective enforcement of existing laws, especially strengthening our background check system, and we can work together to enact commonsense improvements—like reinstating the assault weapons ban and closing the gun show loophole—so that guns do not fall into the hands of those irresponsible, law-breaking few.

[Warpy]

54. People in cities and burbs seem to be

People in rural areas respect them as tools, nothing more, for hunting for meat, keeping predators away from stock, and bears out of the garbage. NM has had family shootings. ND and WY are bristling with guns and have had no mass murders.

Whatever it is, the second amendment should be scrapped and gun laws turned over to the states. Either that or liability insurance needs to be required, cheap for the rural "get the job done" guns with limited fire power and expensive for the semi auto, large magazine guns favored by paranoid suburbanites and mass murderers.

Something has to be done. I know I'm not alone in being sick of every oaf with a screw loose being able to get a gun. Rights have to be balanced with responsibility and that's just not happening with guns.

[GGJohn]

3. And you really think someone running on such a platform would have a chance

of being elected?

[Yallow]

9. Hi GG

Another day, another mass shooting. Sound familiar?

[GGJohn]

22. Hi Yallow,

another day, another fantasy calling for confiscation and melting them.
Sound familiar?

[Electric Monk]

14. I think they'd have an excellent chance

of being shot...

[Yallow]

17. Killer Cartoon

Monk.

Pray some other madman isn't gonna kill 20 kiddies.

Like that is gonna fix it.

Jeebus.....

[former9thward]

4. So run for office.

On that platform. Let us know how it turns out...

[Trajan]

10. Because they fell on their heads ?

I dont know ... I love them so much, I became one !

Now ... be gone, vermin .... Your seconds are numbered ....

[Yallow]

12. Corpses Maybe?

Americans obviously can't control themselves.

There is a reason they don't sell nukes at WalMart.

[nadinbrzezinski]

29. But I really want a nuke

hiroshima size of course. Larger than that and there goes the whole city.

because some people will miss it.

[kentauros]

13. If you can't figure it out

then you might want to start at the source, by looking in a mirror.

[Yallow]

6. You Can't Say Keep Guns Out Of The Hands Of Crazy People

Half this country is crazy.

They watch Fox News, and listen to Rush, and think up is down, and Jesus would cut food stamps. They think the world is 6,000 years old, and Reagan was a saint. They think trickle down worked, and cutting taxes for billionaires creates jobs. They think illegal immigration is America's #1 problem, and climate change isn't happening.

The list goes on for about a thousand miles.

In fact they don't think. They just repeat what they heard on Fox. That way they never need to use their brains.

[Trajan]

8. You've raised the hackles of our resident Gungeonitic afficiandos ...

I raise my glass with a little XTC ....

[Waldorf]

11. As a gun owner.... I say no to your idea. And I would not vote for such

a candidate.

[Yallow]

15. Gun owners more often kill themselves than others - Denver Post

"Public-health researchers have concluded that in homes where guns are present, the likelihood that someone in the home will die from suicide or homicide is much greater."

Go Figure....

http://www.denverpost.com/ci_9747969

[Waldorf]

20. Is that like going from a 0.08% chance of committing suicide/homicide to a 0.10%?

[GGJohn]

25. If that were true,

then why is the rate of firearm deaths falling in this country?

[ManiacJoe]

30. That is a misquoting of the Kellerman study.

The misquoting is very common.

[Yallow]

34. Google Is Your Friend

https://www.minnpost.com/second-opinion/2012/12/health-risk-having-gun-home

[ManiacJoe]

38. I cannot tell if you agree or not with the misquoting of the Kellerman study.

[951-Riverside]

16. When it comes to gun violence its a war of attrition. Gun humpers will lose no matter what

Its just a matter of how many losses of innocents they are willing to shed and how long they want the country be shut down when there are waves of mass shootings like we've never seen before.

Either they're going to get sick of it and come to the table with some common sense solutions or the American people are going to get sick of their arrogance and cavalier attitudes and take their toys away.

No matter what, they lose when the people are forced to choose between mom and dad getting killed in another mass shooting or billy bob having the right to play with his AR-15.

[Yallow]

19. We All Knew Billy Bob Was Crazy

I mean reeeeeeel crazy.

How could he do such a thing!!!!

[sir pball]

21. Oh ffs, almost nowhere on Earth is that extreme.

Jamaica maybe, but did you know..

In Germany, not only are AR-15s legal but so prized that they make their own domestically?

[Yallow]

23. Another Mass Shooting Today - Overshadowed By Other Mass Shooting - Maybe We Missed Some More?

"The San Bernardino mass shooting wasn’t the only mass shooting today. Four people were shot in Savannah, Georgia, early this morning, reports the Atlanta Journal Constitution. "

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10027406307

[951-Riverside]

24. +1

[Throd]

26. I wonder if anyone has tried that platform before?

I would like to know how far they got if they did.

[Yallow]

27. Difference Between Rational Gun Owner / Hunter And A Psychopath?

We better figure this one out while some of us are still alive.

Most gun owners are not insane or murderers.

We just haven't got a clue as to what to do about the ones that are.

Zero answers so far.

[GGJohn]

31. Yet your solution is to punish all firearm owners for the actions of criminals?

Bizarre, very bizarre.

[Yallow]

40. You Explain How We Keep Angry People From Killing Innocent People With Guns

And you can keep all your guns.

(crickets chirping)

If guns, why not nukes!

Nuclear weapons on sale. Get yours today. 10% off! Sarin gas closeout on isle 5.

[GGJohn]

41. I don't have to explain anything

and I still get to keep my firearms.

[TeddyR]

28. I doubt there's

A single place in the U.S. where that platform would carry the day.

[Yallow]

33. Today Maybe - There Is Hope For Tomorrow

If any of us are still alive.....

[GGJohn]

36. Quit being so melodramatic.

If any of us are still alive.....

Drama much?

[Yallow]

32. Mass Shooting Frequency Is Increasing

This graph doesn't look good

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=572374632939029&set=a.290806524429176.1073741828.100004994912434&type=3&theater

[Yallow]

35. When I Go Drinking I Always Take 2 Guns

I might lose one....

[GGJohn]

37. Then you are part of the problem.

What fool goes drinking while carrying?

Oh, wait...............

[Snobblevitch]

39. I have lived almost my entire life in Minnesota,

one of the most blue states you will find. (Minnesota voted for McGovern in '72 and Mondale in '84), but a Democratic platform that included any gun ban/meltdown would be a disaster. DFL candidates have lost in Minnesota in the past on the gun issue.

[virginia mountainman]

42. Talk like this

Is a large part of the reason we democrats find ourselves largely a regional party

[GGJohn]

43. You keep spouting this nonsense,

yet even here on DU, you're in the minority, just think how your proposal would be received IRL.

[Yallow]

46. Maybe They Could Launch Their Campaign

From a graveyard.

[GGJohn]

47. Oh my, what a brilliant reply.

[Recursion]

44. What would I do about coyotes when I'm on my grandfather's ranch in the summers?

Rattlesnakes, too.

[Yallow]

45. Uh Let Them Live

Gee Gomer.

Not a hard one.

[GGJohn]

48. So if predators are attacking our livestock,

I'm supposed to just let them?
How idiotic is that?
Here's my answer to you: NO!!!

[Recursion]

51. Right, well, that makes it much harder to keep the cattle alive, you see

Which is kind of the whole point of having the ranch (at least until the point is to ship them off to the slaughterhouse, but they have to survive that first year or two to do that)

[branford]

53. Apparently some Democrats believe only urbanites have rights and interests.

It sadly helps explain why the Republicans control the Senate, House, and a clear majority of statehouses and governorships.

[davidn3600]

49. People were killing people thousands of years before guns were invented

[WillowTree]

50. Ah, but there's that pesky old Constitution to contend with.