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jcgoldie

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9. Playing politics while innocent people get mowed down is not the answer

Reply to Amishman (Original post)

Tue Mar 23, 2021, 07:48 PM

Mar 2021

If you don't use the majority you have to enact desperately needed legislation on the most important issues of the time because you are fretting about losing the next election then whats the point of winning control in the first place. Fretting over this or that district in Pennsylvania as people get mass murdered weekly by automatic weapons is not good enough.

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The reality on promoting a new weapons ban [View all] Amishman Mar 2021 OP

As much as I hate it we could also lose both redstatebluegirl Mar 2021 #1

Yup, we have a bunch of people who don't realize how much this could hurt us Amishman Mar 2021 #4

I think many of them live in bright blue areas. redstatebluegirl Mar 2021 #5

But Elessar Zappa Mar 2021 #8

Maybe they should reclassify domestic mass shooting events as terrorism bucolic_frolic Mar 2021 #2

Every year we do nothing puts millions more of these gunz on the street. Hoyt Mar 2021 #3

So we should be reasonable at actually try something that might work Amishman Mar 2021 #6

Why not just let you gun protectors have one six gun and you have Hoyt Mar 2021 #10

See, that attitude is why we can't get anything passed Amishman Mar 2021 #13

LMAO. You should be willing to give up your gun-fetish to stop this crud. Hoyt Mar 2021 #14

Again, the belligerent uncompromising attitude is a great example of why we fail Amishman Mar 2021 #15

Better to achieve something significant, like fixed, low cap mags. Hoyt Mar 2021 #16

Well yes Calculating Mar 2021 #17

Part of the problem. But, your legally owned gunz and all the crap those with that industry Hoyt Mar 2021 #22

And yet former guy, his enablers and supporters have killed 500,000 people without abqtommy Mar 2021 #7

Playing politics while innocent people get mowed down is not the answer jcgoldie Mar 2021 #9

Thank you. Nothing ventured, nothing gained. crickets Mar 2021 #11

You won't even get all the Democratic Senators supporting an AWB hack89 Mar 2021 #12

Push for something reasonable like universal background checks Calculating Mar 2021 #18

I agree. Nt hack89 Mar 2021 #19

Absolutely. Straw Man Mar 2021 #21

Don't agree. That's the position of those trying to protect their gunz. Hoyt Mar 2021 #23

You call your perspective realism. LanternWaste Mar 2021 #20