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In reply to the discussion: How Bernie Sanders Helped Derail a Promising Legal Fight Against Gun Violence [View all]marble falls
(56,996 posts)dump Trump's rubber stamp Congress.
But to respond to how Bernie may or may not have evolved his position (and none of us here are single issue voters, that is in another world another time none of would stay home and not vote fro Bernie over gun control just to allow Trump to win the Presidency) on gun control.
http://feelthebern.org/bernie-sanders-on-gun-policy/ This is what Bernie's gun policy is.
What I found elsewhere:
Sanders frequently makes two points about his gun record: He has a D-minus rating from the NRA, and the NRAs endorsement of his opponents during his first congressional race in 1988 may have cost him the election. Sanderss most recent grade from the NRA was a D-minus. Since 1992, the first year the NRA issued a grade for Sanders, he has received between a C-minus and F. Since 1988, Sanders has been consistent on restricting the use of semiautomatic firearms (often called assault weapons). But now, he suggests that his stance against assault weapons cost him the 1988 election because his two opponents in the three-way race opposed banning such firearms and had the NRAs support. Was that really the case? The evidence is mixed. He could have just as easily lost the election because he split votes with a Democrat, as opposed to being the only candidate without an NRA endorsement.
Clinton has attacked Sanders for voting five times against the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act, which established a background check system and wait periods for people buying handguns from licensed dealers. Sanders often responds to this attack by highlighting his long-time support for instant background checks. Thats true, but theres more to the story. When the Brady bill was being debated, the instant background checks that Sanders supported actually wouldve killed the Brady bill. Thats because the technology for such an instant check did not exist then, and the provision wouldve rendered the background check ineffective. After the 2012 shootings in Newtown, Conn., Sanders did vote in support of several amendments seeking to expand background checks for all firearm sales and to prohibit straw purchases.
The above two paragraphs come from https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2016/01/26/everything-you-wanted-to-know-about-bernie-sanderss-record-on-guns/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.222a69f92397
I am not involved with this discussion to defend any candidate. I voted wholeheartedly for Hillary Clinton. I think she would have made a very good President, as good any other successful Preisdent. My issue is why are we cutting either former candidate when that election is over and the one we need to worry about is in Nov. That we are here bashing either Clinton or Sanders is wrong headed and highly counter productive particularly since neither Clinton or Sanders are engaged in bashing each other and both are out supporting Democrats all over the nation and by and largely support the same candidates.
Something we all need to be doing.