Texas Democratic Party adopts 2012 platform with strong gun-hostile verbage

[friendly_iconoclast]

82. Here's the pertinent bits:

(pp. 27-28)

To continue the fight against crime, and to make our streets and homes safer, Texas Democrats support just and smart policies, including:
...
∙ strengthen the national Brady background check system to incorporate all necessary records including criminal, domestic violence, mental health records, and terror watch lists;
∙ institute a universal background check system to ensure that all firearm sales are subject to a Brady background check;
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∙ sensible gun control laws to curtail the availability of automatic weapons and extended magazines...

(p. 31)

We support:
∙ legislation to preserve the right to self-defense while restoring the duty to retreat when outside of the home to discourage and prevent vigilantism...

Once again, the restrictionistas would prefer 100% of nothing to 95% of something