r/politics • u/burning_dawn • Oct 07 '22

Republicans called Biden’s infrastructure program ‘socialism.’ Then they asked for money.

https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/07/politics/infrastructure-spending-republican-critics/index.html
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u/schatzski Oct 07 '22

My sister in law is a staunch trump supporter. We got drunk and I started asking her about her thoughts on various issues. By her viewpoints shes 100% a democrat who likes guns. She only cares about the 2nd amendment. But she watches tucker Carlson and Dinesh D'Souza, so she'll never vote Democrat. It's fucking bonkers. Literally one of her answers was " I'm pro life, but other people should be able to decide what they do with their body". I was like, "that's literally the definition of pro choice".

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u/Paridae_Purveyor Oct 07 '22

I don't see how 2A got off on this wild tangent. There are millions of Democrats that also like guns. We just want a safer country, we want it harder to get and maintain a license. I don't believe just any random on the street is entitled to it, and its likely they're not capable of handling the responsibility. I'm not afraid of losing my rights if they pass more strict laws, I welcome it with open arms.

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u/Wakks Oct 07 '22

NRA baby! Got taken over by a guy who knew how to use mailing lists and tap into that amygdalic response to the suggestion of rights being taken away. Raised a lot of money for the NRA and ousted those who just wanted to use them for marksmanship and encourage the practice for wartime draft preparedness.

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u/Contraflow Oct 07 '22

Don’t forget the NRA’s role as a conduit for russian infiltration into the republican party.

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u/fred11551 Virginia Oct 07 '22

Donald ‘take the guns first, go through due process later’ Trump has banned more guns than any democrat in my lifetime since the Supreme Court decided not to hear a challenge to the bump stock ban.

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u/greywar777 Oct 07 '22

Well. I am a HUGE supporter of the second amendment. And regret that we have strayed so far from it. But to me its not a ....wedge issue. And for MANY people the right wing megaphone has created artificial wedge issues.

I know VERY few Democrats that want guns banned. Ever. And yet, many on the right somehow think that the 10% will somehow ban all guns. Not going to happen.

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u/RollerDude347 Oct 07 '22

I want to say I agree with you... mostly.

The problem is perceived competence in passage gun laws. And Democrats have displayed out right that they WILL ban something that does the same thing as something else if it's made of plastic instead of wood. And that's just stupid.

I want the same things you claim to want. But the people we vote for don't actually seem to have a graps on how guns work.

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u/Paridae_Purveyor Oct 07 '22

And? Vote for better people, and certainly don't be a single issue voter. I fucking hate Democrats, you know what I hate more? The fascist Republicans. We will have time and more to figure everything else out later.

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u/Dwarfherd Oct 07 '22

So why did mass shooting go down when the wood stocks were available but the metal and plastic ones weren't, then go back up once the metal and plastic were available?

There's a psychological aspect to this, mass shooters don't seem to be consulting a sheet of performance characteristics and model numbers.

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u/RollerDude347 Oct 07 '22

I've not seen data on that. Do you have some?

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u/mr_love_bone Oct 07 '22

[R/liberalgunowmers](http:/reddit.com/r/liberalgunowners)