Gun Control & RKBA
In reply to the discussion: Does not agreeing with the DNC on gun control make me less of a Democrat? [View all]krispos42
(49,445 posts)Recognizing that women have historically been repressed due to their gender, and that they have not been able to exercise full control over their bodies throughout much of history, and fighting attempts by people to seek to reestablish that kind of control, is inherently liberal and progressive.
Recognizing that workers unionizing (organized labor) is the only effective way that organized capital (investors and their financial power) can be challenged on approximately equal grounds in inherently progressive.
Regulating Wall Street taxing the 1% is inherently progressive because it fights the natural and historic tendency of money (and thus, power) to float to the top, denying the bottom 99% the ability to have influence in government or in the market, or to live with human dignity, or to raise kids with opportunities that transcend their start in life.
Gun control I have struggled with as a progressive concept. While I understand and agree that part of being progressive is the use of violence as a last resort on a personal level, a law-enforcement level, and on the international stage, this does not sit well with me when people try very hard to put up barriers to gun ownership, or when people that do own them are treated as either potential sociopaths or potential criminals.