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kcr

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13. We don't have the states where it isn't popular

Reply to Demsrule86 (Reply #10)

Wed Mar 24, 2021, 09:12 AM

Mar 2021

That's the problem. We can chisel away at the problem when we do have control, but that's about as far as we can get. Someday a future SCOTUS may actually rule on the 2nd amendment that allows for broader change, but until then that's about as much as we get.

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We Need To Stop Calling It 'Gun Control' & Start Calling It 'People Control'.... [View all] global1 Mar 2021 OP

Or Gun Safety Legislation CrackityJones75 Mar 2021 #1

That term just plays badly to the public. NutmegYankee Mar 2021 #2

yup, people who support something will be turned off just by that term JI7 Mar 2021 #5

Yeah, it would be a lot worse than "gun control." lagomorph777 Mar 2021 #6

Good luck with that! WhiskeyGrinder Mar 2021 #3

No fucking way . That would turn off most people. Most people support Gun Control JI7 Mar 2021 #4

Nothing people like better than being controlled kcr Mar 2021 #7

It is not popular in states we need to hold in order to have a majority and that is the issue. Demsrule86 Mar 2021 #10

We don't have the states where it isn't popular kcr Mar 2021 #13

You are right. Demsrule86 Mar 2021 #16

We need to fight hard against open carry...that is the ticket...the idea you can bring a gun to Demsrule86 Mar 2021 #8

To change the narrative, that's the exact wrong phrase JHB Mar 2021 #9

hard pass, that plays into gun humper paranoid fantasies, and is a form of the RW talking point Celerity Mar 2021 #11

yeah, that doesn't sound authoritarian at all and will be welcome by the public SYFROYH Mar 2021 #12

fork that noise Voltaire2 Mar 2021 #14

Why don't people need to pass a test to purchase a gun? forgotmylogin Mar 2021 #15

No. "Crime control" NYC Liberal Mar 2021 #17

Oh GOD no. WORSE label x1000. Maru Kitteh Mar 2021 #18