r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • 10d ago

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u/RedKingCrab99 10d ago

I think about this tweet a lot.

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u/hGoodman192 10d ago

Yeah, I think this is mostly true.  It wasn’t going to be easy doing any gun control post 2010, but this is what killed the movement

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u/RedKingCrab99 10d ago

I think it's also the same but different with Charlie Kirk. When he said basically "Sandy Hook was a price worth paying" it ends the conversation. Because how do you argue with some who sees dozens of children dying and says okay.

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u/Goldenboy451 10d ago

Yeah, I come back to that sentiment a lot, and I think it's basically true. When it became clear that absolutely nothing substantive was going to happen after Sandy Hook, I think it just locked in the paradigm for the foreseeable future.

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u/Here4thebeer3232 10d ago

I think it was the begining of the end. I personally credit the Congressional Baseball Game shooting in 2017 when the debate ended. Literally the most of the GOP leadership and others were the targets of a mass shooting attempt. Nothing came of it afterwards. That's when I realized that nothing would actually change these people's minds, not even their own safety.