cradleandshoot wrote: ↑Sat May 28, 2022 8:43 amI'm only pointing out the inconvenient truth. Everybody wants to move heaven and earth to ban guns owned by law abiding Americans but no one wants to do jack diddly squat about illegal weapons. Why?? Because that would be very, very difficult to do.Typical Lax Dad wrote: ↑Sat May 28, 2022 8:38 amStop complaining. Crime hasn’t stopped YET.cradleandshoot wrote: ↑Sat May 28, 2022 6:57 amNot clever but it is a cold hard reality to the folks who live in Chicago. The problem is criminals who are in possession of ILLEGAL EFFING WEAPONS!!! The ongoing holocaust in Chicago and similar urban cities doesn't garner the flashy media headlines. Happy to know you have no problem putting your blinders on and ignoring the problem. That is the effing reality of the problem our country is facing.Seacoaster(1) wrote: ↑Sat May 28, 2022 6:46 amHow clever...and symptomatic of the problems we are experiencing.cradleandshoot wrote: ↑Sat May 28, 2022 6:40 amDoes that include any given weekend in Chicago???CU88 wrote: ↑Fri May 27, 2022 5:07 pm Joe Biden said mass shootings tripled when the assault weapon ban ended.
They did
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2 ... n-assault/
FTR counselor.. how are all these illegal weapons finding their way into cities that have some of the strictest gun control laws in the country. I ask you why the federal government and the BATF are not doing their job. Once these weapons cross state lines it becomes a federal issue. Is the BATF incapable of doing their job??
Underlying much of the Republican resistance to any change in gun laws is the very deserved distrust of what Democrats actually want. Polls show that half of Democrats are quite comfortable undoing the Second Amendment. It’s a guess to how many would forbid all guns, but I think we are on solid ground surmising that 25% would strip away all 2A rights.
I’ve said it a billion times and I’ll say it a billion more, and it’s not exactly a radical thought: far too many Democrats are entirely uneasy with the notion of America, of American exceptionalism, and of historic pride. Heck, some have good reasons. But, at the end of the day, that recognition, that a good percent of one of our two parties is not exactly enamored with the country it purports to represent, explains why many Republicans can’t stomach change to gun laws, even when it’s obvious we need them.
Tough spot to be in. Republicans need more leaders like Desantis and less like Abbott, to bring more Republicans along for change while recognizing the real dangers of some of the Democratic Party. .