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[-] AlexWIWA@lemmy.ml 51 points 3 months ago

Banning guns is a losing policy for democrats. It only ever hurts them. I really wish they'd stop lighting political capital on fire with statements like this

[-] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 27 points 3 months ago

I said this decades ago... if Dems dropped the gun shit and embraced safe shooting sports, they would win every damn election.

[-] AhismaMiasma@lemm.ee 16 points 3 months ago

Gun rights are a MAJOR factor in why many people I personally know refuse to consider voting Democrat.

They will wax poetic all day about how much they detest Trump... but then end with, "At least he won't take away our guns."

[-] Dkarma@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago

Which is hilarious cuz trump said he would

[-] HawlSera@lemm.ee 2 points 3 months ago

I actually know a guy who plans on voting for Trump simply because "They can't drag me to the concentration camps if I have guns"

He doesn't think Biden wants to drag him off btw, he thinks Trump will... but it won't matter because he had guns..

[-] AlexWIWA@lemmy.ml 10 points 3 months ago

The number of people I know who won't vote for them because of gun shit is too damn high. There are cheaper ways to solve gun violence anyway. Single issue voters are dumb, but democrats need to accept that they exist and this is the biggest single issue

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 9 points 3 months ago

We'd have universal healthcare and constitutional abortion rights if nothing else.

[-] nondescripthandle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 3 months ago

Rich people would lose a lot of money should that ever happen, so whenever things start to look even a little good, you bet your ass some idiot in the Dems is going to scream "hell yes we'll take your guns".

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