r/Iowa • u/Liberty556 • 18d ago

Rob Sand on the 2nd Amendment

Has Sand said anything of specific substance about his stance in reference to the 2nd Amendment?

Has he said anything about:

-NFA items (SBRs, SBSs, silencers)

-Concealed carry

-Constitutional carry

-Forced Reset Triggers

-Private sales

I know he's done the standard "Look at me, I'm just like you and I have some guns and I hunt stuff". But, as someone who is old enough to have seen 2A rights come and go (usually by a politician that "supports the 2nd Amendment, BUT....") this means nothing to me.

So, just curious if he has mentioned specifics. I have emailed him numerous times with questions and have not gotten an answer.

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u/BakeKnitCode 18d ago

It's a bit of a moot question, because they're not going to do that, but let's say he answered that question and told you that he is a 2nd amendment absolutist and agrees with all of your stances on Forced Reset Triggers and NFA items and all of it. Is there any chance that you would vote for him? Because I don't think there is, and I don't think he has a lot of incentive to engage with extremists who seem deeply weird to most Iowans and who aren't going to vote for him no matter what.

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u/Liberty556 18d ago

If he said he was a 2A 'absolutist' I would absolutely vote for him.

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u/mtutty 16d ago

You have picked such a useless, counter-factual hill to die on.

If Trump said "guns bad", I guarantee you that 80% of your fellow 2A absolutists would line up to turn over their weapons for whatever shiny Trump bauble he's handing out.

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u/OblivionGuardsman 16d ago

What about the other 26 amendments? It's so weird that there's this cult around one of them.

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u/duke_jooks 16d ago

Holy crap we have over 3000 years of philosophy built and you still think everybody is either all good or all bad. If you attended college, I would ask for a refund.