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It wasn’t meant to be dismissive or arrogant. You can’t handle a bit of jest? The slippery slope argument has been used many times to avoid making any changes

It wasn’t meant to be dismissive or arrogant. You can’t handle a bit of jest? The slippery slope argument has been used many times to avoid making any changes at all. Maybe your read is based on propaganda? Maybe mine is? I don’t believe Democrats would ban all guns in the same way that I don’t believe fuel economy standards were intended to ban trucks as was argued by some on the right. Though there is a constitutional right to own guns where the right to drive an F150 sadly does not yet exist. Restrictions of guns does not equal banning guns and Donald Trump and Marco Rubio and many other prominent politicians on the right also favor restrictions on guns. The entire situation would be better if reasonable discussion could be had.

ceilingcorner 6y ago
It just seems clear to me that most Democrats have a hostile position to guns. Maybe they'd ban them, maybe they wouldn't, but if say, AOC would go shooting at the gun range or in any way signal that she likes guns, she'd be immediately criticized harshly and lose a ton of support. I don't think I'm basing this on propaganda, but I could be wrong. Personally, I don't think banning guns or having restrictions will do anything at all. The sources of gun violence are cultural and social. Figure out why mass shootings or gang warfare are so common, then address the root of the problem.
- tablespoon 6y ago
  > It just seems clear to me that most Democrats have a hostile position to guns. Yeah. Not all Democrats are against guns, but if you pick an anti-gun politician at random, that person is highly likely to be a Democrat. The fact that the jurisdictions with the most restrictive gun laws a pretty much always Democratic strongholds is further proof. IIRC, some had already effectively banned private gun ownership until some Supreme Court cases a decade or so ago. https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/breaking/ct-met-chicago-gun-laws-explainer-20171006-story.html https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/breaking/ct-met-chicago-...: > Does Chicago have the strictest gun laws in the country? It did after Mayor Jane Byrne pushed through the ban on firearms not already registered with Chicago police in March 1982. The city's ban lasted until 2010, when the Supreme Court struck it down by a majority vote of 5-4.

ceilingcorner 6y ago

It just seems clear to me that most Democrats have a hostile position to guns. Maybe they'd ban them, maybe they wouldn't, but if say, AOC would go shooting at the gun range or in any way signal that she likes guns, she'd be immediately criticized harshly and lose a ton of support. I don't think I'm basing this on propaganda, but I could be wrong. Personally, I don't think banning guns or having restrictions will do anything at all. The sources of gun violence are cultural and social. Figure out why mass shootings or gang warfare are so common, then address the root of the problem.

tablespoon 6y ago
> It just seems clear to me that most Democrats have a hostile position to guns. Yeah. Not all Democrats are against guns, but if you pick an anti-gun politician at random, that person is highly likely to be a Democrat. The fact that the jurisdictions with the most restrictive gun laws a pretty much always Democratic strongholds is further proof. IIRC, some had already effectively banned private gun ownership until some Supreme Court cases a decade or so ago. https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/breaking/ct-met-chicago-gun-laws-explainer-20171006-story.html https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/breaking/ct-met-chicago-...: > Does Chicago have the strictest gun laws in the country? It did after Mayor Jane Byrne pushed through the ban on firearms not already registered with Chicago police in March 1982. The city's ban lasted until 2010, when the Supreme Court struck it down by a majority vote of 5-4.