Comparing Positions of the Democratic Candidates, from the Washington Post

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14. I completely and utterly disagree with you.

I'm all for waiting periods and background checks being federal law along with machine gun bans. I do not think gun laws that are appropriate for NY or CA are appropriate for VT or Maine or WY or other rural states with strong hunting traditions.

Why should VT have gun control akin to that of NJ when it has one of the lowest incidences PER CAPITA of gun violence and the lowest rate of murder from guns, despite having the laxest gun laws in the country? Quite simply, Vermont doesn't have a gun violence problem.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_violence_in_the_United_States_by_state

As for minimum wage, Bernie has been an activist on this for 30 years- for a LIVING WAGE. And in VT, btw, the mw is scheduled to rise to 10.50 in 2018 and to indexed to inflation beginning in 2019. MD will catch up with VT's current minimum wage in two years, by which time VT's will be over $10.00.

As for providing evidence that Bernie was a progressive when O'Malley was a centrist, are you kidding? He's been working for the same things for over 30 years. I've provided lots of links and so have others- just go to the Bernie group.