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The damage is already done. The left have gone so far to ban nearly every firearm, put up barriers and fees for purchasing, use gun buybacks to get the poor less armed instead of reinforcing training or encouraging proper handling now the right are well armed and are filling the ranks of ICE to trample on Americans rights.
It’s not even that hard to get guns here in Canada. I do not get what this US gun idiocy is all about.
Also, its liberals doing those things, not the Left. I really wish Americans would take the 30 seconds it takes to learn the difference. Its absolutely exhausting to constantly have to correct and explain.
You have to keep explaining it because you guys keep trying to shift the definition around. The way everyone else has always understood it, "Left" was always short for "Left-wing" and is the umbrella term for everything on the left end of the political spectrum. "Liberal", "Socialist", "Communist", etc, are all subsets of "Left".
Liberalism has always included free markets and isn't the left. It's only the US dichotomy of liberal vs. conservative and the volume and reach their media has that confuses the issue.