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Most (many?) leftists don't support banning guns by the way. At the very least it's widely debated on the left. The term you're looking for is "liberal" or Demo
by Miner49er 7y ago
Most (many?) leftists don't support banning guns by the way. At the very least it's widely debated on the left. The term you're looking for is "liberal" or Democrat.
- hartator 7y agoI thought US lefts = US liberals == US Democrats?
- dragonwriter 7y agoNo. In more detail, “liberal” in US politics has a lot of conflicting uses and is almost a useless term. The US Democratic Party is dominated (though somewhat less so today than a few years ago) by a neoliberal, centrist (arguably center-right) pro-capitalist faction, which tends to also be where the most consistent support for gun control in the Democratic Party, or mainstream US politics more generally, is. It’s next biggest faction (the closest mainstream US politics has to a “left”) is a center-left social democratic faction (some of which self-identifies as democratic socialist); this faction has a mix of people who are less supportive of gun control than than the neoliberal faction of the party, and those that favor more extreme gun control, and everywhere in between. The actual American left, which is largely outside of the major parties, is also quite mixed on gun control.
- ceejayoz 7y agoThere are quite a few centrist and even right-leaning Democrats. Joe Manchin, for example.
- stochastic_monk 7y agoThe Socialist Rifle Association, for instance, consists of left-leaning individuals who like guns.