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[krispos42]

82. I like your train of thinking

People that take preventive measures are frightened. Nice. Oh, and they're yahoos. Also nice.


Your side keeps making this an issue with high-profile but inherently useless laws and proposals to wage some kind of culture war against "yahoos". Your side drives away voters from the Democratic Party, and because of that we can't do a hell of a lot of progressive stuff that absolutely needs to be done. Your side invoked a strong negative gut reaction from people that are victims of conservative economics and politics, because those people are not particularly well-educated, on average, and are neither particularly cerebral about political science nor aware of how much they are being screwed by those policies.

And your sides does not invoke a corresponding positive gut reaction from people inclined to support us. Your calls for control do not make people feel they have to join the Democrats and support progressive politicians.

So it's net political loss. Your bans on "assault weapons" and magazine capacity limits haven't saved a single life, but the inability to reign in carbon dioxide, globalization, declining manufacturing, declining schools, declining hospitals, declining infrastructure, the political influence of the rich, corporate monopolies and plutocracies, our antiquated election system, our uncontrolled campaign-finance system, or the gerrymandering of our House of Representatives certainly costs many thousands of dead people a year in this country alone.

And since those two items are virtually a prerequisite now for inclusion in any bill on gun control, things that might actually work to reduce access to guns by career criminals and the mentally unfit are DOA.

But you know what? You might as well keep doing what you're doing now. Even if the DNC party platform was reformed, the damage is done.