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[Eleanors38]

99. I appreciate your reasonable post. I have posted on labor

issues and different approaches to poverty's consequences, esp. crime. Part the problem is few folks discuss this, favoring some hate fest (at pro-2A folks' expense) because some kid got shot while playing with his Dad's pistol. The same also applies to other issues as well, but the legitimized hatred exhibited -- without constraint -- toward 2A defenders is constant and, I'm afraid, policy and strategy.

Of course, the response to this is double down.

One of my main purposes for emphasizing 2A on DU is to disabuse liberals of the notion that they must mumble chants to the God of Bans in order to be a real liberal, and I think "we" in the Gungeon have succeeded in large measure if for no other reason than those viewing the gun "debates" can contrast the vitriolic attacks with respectful argument. And believe me, the dichotemy is great.

I think it is Essential that Democrats jettison the continuing national policy of gun bans. It is so destructive for a party which purports to be the voice of the poor and struggling middle classes to have to drag that issue around like a bad smell, esp. when guns is merely a proxy for other unfortunate hates Democrats have lately indulged: Southerners, rural folks, any number of states (Florida is a favorite despite going for Obama twice), and a host of other negative stereotypes. It is a far bigger problem, the gun issue, than folks give credit for, not just on DU, but in the body politic in general. As I have pointed out before about gun control's alleged Democratic "credentials:" The Zombies band had charted all their hits before "guns" was first mentioned in a Democratic Party Platform (1968). Thanks for the discussion.