I live in North Austin. there was a mass shooting at my neighborhood target.

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41. One problem with that...

...is these media driven key words like "common sense" and the like...Most rural gun owners roll their eyes at that, including many rural Democrats like me...It screams "I don't care what happens, I want to do SOMETHING, ANYTHING"..The problem with stating that we need "common sense" measures, is that your common sense and my common sense might be wildly different...That phraseology is non-specific, and specifics are what really make these discussions fruitiful.

I agree that training is helpful and needed, and arguably even in the spirit of what the second amendment states, which is a "well regulated militia"...Regulated means trained in founderspeak. so we agree there.

The thing about firearms that is so different is that the Constitution provides for their ownership by citizenry....They were very specific to place that as the most important tenet right behind speech.

Another main thing with firearms is people that want to argue about it have no clue about the laws, both federal and state that actually govern the devices...They just make things up because it feels good to say it when none of it is actually factual.

I can tell you this...Nothing and I mean NOTHING loses rural Democrats more than this issue.