Democrats Used to Disagree About Gun Control. The 2020 Candidates Don't

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Democrats Used to Disagree About Gun Control. The 2020 Candidates Don't
The current crop of frontrunners in the 2020 Democratic primary show the homogenization of the left's views on combating gun violence.
At her recent CNN town hall meeting, Democratic presidential hopeful Kamala Harris was asked by a pastor what the country can do about gun violence. "We have got to have smart gun safety laws in this country," she responded. "You can be in favor of the Second Amendment and also understand that there is no reason in a civil society that we have assault weapons around communities that can kill babies and police officers."

co-sponsored an assault weapons ban bill, including Harris, and her presumptive primary opponents Cory Booker (D-New Jersey), Kirsten Gillibrand (D-New York), Amy Klobuchar (D-Minnesota), Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont), and Elizabeth Warren (D-Massachusetts).

What was surprising was that Harris' town hall response got much attention at all.

the most recent National Rifle Association ratings for a dozen of the presidential candidates: Harris, Booker, Joe Biden, and John Delaney rate a seven on the NRA's one to 100 support scale. Gillibrand, Klobuchar, Sanders, Warren, Beto O'Rourke, and Sherrod Brown all rate a 13. Governor John Hickenlooper got a failing grade from the NRA for his work to pass bipartisan gun control in Colorado. Only Montana Governor Steve Bullock pulls decent NRA ratings—a 43—but he doesn't look to be anywhere close to the top tier of candidates right now.

This agreement on gun-control issues marks a remarkable shift for the party. A little over a decade ago, most national Democratic candidates didn't want to bring up gun control on the stump. Democrats were largely convinced that their support for gun control had cost them control of the Congress in the 1990s and the presidency in 2000, and they radically retreated on the issue, while the NRA became far more aggressive and more explicitly partisan in its support and its messaging.
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[Podmonkey]

This current push will cost the democrats as well. That despicable party's embrace of the extreme radical left will be its doom.

 

[Celt]

This current push will cost the democrats as well. That despicable party's embrace of the extreme radical left will be its doom.

Lets hope so!

 

[Jmac00]

This current push will cost the democrats as well. That despicable party's embrace of the extreme radical left will be its doom.

you maybe correct, for awhile. Pres. Trump is the ONLY THING stopping the progressives. Once he is out of office the indoctrinated children will be a voting force. I suspect by 2025 this country will be completely socialist due to the college indoctrination.

My only hope is there are far more seniors voting, and the college indoctrinated are to lazy to get to the voting booth.

This country is headed in a very bad direction. Im not sure the direction can be changed. The Deep state is an extremely powerful force that will not be denied for long

 

[tirwin1]

Pres. Trump is the ONLY THING stopping the progressives. Once he is out of office the indoctrinated children will be a voting force. I suspect by 2025 this country will be completely socialist due to the college indoctrination.

If the republicans control the senate they can still block the worst anti gun legislation. But first they have to grow a backbone.

 

[Devildog9999]

100% agree - by 2025 we will be fully socialist, or VERY close. Most states will have such restrictive gun laws that the public will be essentially all but unarmed and unable to defend the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, their families, or even themselves any longer. The Libs played the long con, and appear to have won the game. It will take a miracle, or a massive showing of force by conservative voters never seen before to stop any of this.

 

[Blimey]

We are sailing in very dark waters. The fact that a 29 year's high school paper written as a parody is being endorsed by a number of democratic front runners shows how rudderless the democrats are. But I hold a dim view of much of the electorate. They are uneducated (ostensibly they may even hold degrees, but they know nothing of history or politics), they are uncritical, they are emotional. They will support whatever it is as long as it's not that orange racist.

I'm encouraged by views like this, but who knows where any of this goes.
Green New Deal: A Democratic suicide note - WND - WND

Rarely does an out party present a fixed and stationary target as exposed as this, as out-of the-mainstream as this, as vulnerable as this.

 

[BDinPutnam]

Ah yes, the old "babies and police officers" trope.

 

[Podmonkey]

you maybe correct, for awhile. Pres. Trump is the ONLY THING stopping the progressives. Once he is out of office the indoctrinated children will be a voting force. I suspect by 2025 this country will be completely socialist due to the college indoctrination.

My only hope is there are far more seniors voting, and the college indoctrinated are to lazy to get to the voting booth.

This country is headed in a very bad direction. Im not sure the direction can be changed. The Deep state is an extremely powerful force that will not be denied for long

It doesn't matter. The next time a democrat president is elected that is when we start the Civil War.