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[–] ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 23 hours ago

Tbf many have hated him since he said that advocating for red flag laws and since he banned bumpstocks which opened up the ATF to regulate things they shouldn't have been (and they've lost a lawsuit over it, so now they no longer are thankfully, but he still opened the door).

I hated him before that tbf but my pro-trump acquaintances started cracking around that time (especially because I was putting pressure on about it lol, calling him a gun grabber and all other manner of true things, did you know he was a lifelong Democrat until he ran betting he could trick the Republicans? Lol)

Now, most of them still say "yeah but the Democrats are worse on gun rights so we can't vote for them" and tbh, they're not entirely wrong, the Dems need to stop shooting themselves in the foot on gun rights 30yr ago, the political landscape would look so much different right now if they hadn't wasted so much time pushing gun owners to the right and not arming themselves (well more accurately convincing their base not to arm themselves, the Dem party members all have guns and/or private security who carries guns because in their mind they're "important" and their base is not.) It would take the Dems a long time of completely reversing their opinion on guns and actually pushing legislature that actually helps gun rights before the 2a supporters are going to trust them again, it can be done, but it'll take at least a decade of consistent pro-2a actions. And it would be beneficial to do so, too, at the moment 2a supporters are pushed right then radicalized while they're there, if gun rights aren't a foothold for them anymore they'll have to work that much harder and it could even be used by the Dems to radicalize those people for good instead of bad.