Maine Governor Signs Pro-Gun Legislation into Law

[pipoman]

5. The obvious difference

is that the "anti-women laws" are restrictions on individual freedom and liberty...very non-Democratic/non-progressive. The gun control plank in the Democratic platform is the only plank I can think of which advocates for a conservative interpretation and implementation of individual freedom and liberty. The polar opposite of everything I expect from my party. The party has been wrong about the gun control issue, and thus can never win the support of a large faction of the party.

The gun control issue is historically (recent history 50 years or so) misunderstood. Gun control is not and never will be a party issue, it is an urban/rural issue. This is why urban Dems and thugs tend to agree on the issue, and rural dems and thugs agree. This is why dem reps from rural districts will never agree to gun control legislation. There aren't enough urban repubs to counter the rural district dems.

Gun control, like every other limitation on liberty is NOT a liberal/democratic/progressive position...women's rights along with all other human rights is a very liberal/democratic/progressive position..