After years of hesitation, Democrats rally around calls for gun control
Source: washingtonpost
By Philip Rucker and Robert Costa October 14 at 9:47 PM
LAS VEGAS The Democratic presidential candidates have thrust gun control forward as a dominant issue for the national election, signaling a sea change in the politics of a controversial subject that recent Democratic nominees have often avoided.
After years of deadly mass shootings across the country, and with President Obama voicing deep frustration with inaction by Republicans in Congress, the Democratic candidates led by Hillary Rodham Clinton vowed in a debate here Tuesday night to toughen restrictions on gun owners and gun manufacturers.
Most seemed not merely willing but determined and eager to lead the push for gun control into next years general election and effectively declared war on the National Rifle Association.
We have to look at the fact that we lose 90 people a day from gun violence, Clinton said at the CNN event. This has gone on too long, and its time the entire country stood up against the NRA. .................
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Democrats are talking a risk. I am so glad we finally are laying out some proposals.
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Concerned about their safety and fed up with Congress, university students, organized by the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, gathered for a demonstration on Capitol Hill Oct. 6. (Evelyn Hockstein/For The Washington Post)
stonecutter357
(12,697 posts)Kelvin Mace
(17,469 posts)it is one of his few negatives.
stonecutter357
(12,697 posts)riversedge
(70,311 posts)Elmer S. E. Dump
(5,751 posts)stonecutter357
(12,697 posts)Elmer S. E. Dump
(5,751 posts)Kingofalldems
(38,487 posts)Aristus
(66,467 posts)I don't know why the Democrats have been so worried about losing the gun-nuts. We never had them in the first place. It's not like we were going to get their votes if we kept a poster of Charleton Heston on our bedroom walls...
pocoloco
(3,180 posts)Paladin
(28,276 posts)You're going to have to do a lot better than that.......
mwrguy
(3,245 posts)frizzled
(509 posts)maxsolomon
(33,400 posts)The best you can hope for is for the tide to turn before you die. For me, that's 30 years give or take. I simply want better regulation and standards for the responsibility of possessing firearms.
Most gun owners are not "keeping and bearing arms" to "maintain a free state". They'd actually have to use their weapons in a time of war to have done so.
JustABozoOnThisBus
(23,369 posts)Whoever is the nominee, Sanders, Clinton, or Biden, the general election is a lock. The Repubs have no candidate who can win. So, no danger in pushing for gun control, sensible new laws, registration, confiscation, whatever they want.
I don't think the emphasis on gun control will help restore Congress to Democratic majorities, however.
leftyladyfrommo
(18,874 posts)I'm not anti gun but this situation has gotten completely out of hand.
I think we should do what they do in Iceland. Guns are registered there. Guns are allowed if people really need them for something -like the farmers who need them for predator control or for hunting. No handguns or automatic guns or rifles.
I think they had 4 deaths last year. And one was a suicide and one other one was an accident.
They think our love of guns is crazy. I agree with rhem. I think it's crazy, too.
frizzled
(509 posts)nt
leftyladyfrommo
(18,874 posts)He lives out on a farm but he's pretty much like us.
He said that you can't even carry a bowie knife in somewhere unless there's a good reason to have it on you. Most of the farmers have rifles. But they are all registered.