The modest restrictions on gun sales proposed by Dems are supported by overwhelming public majorities. If you're saying Dems should "move right on guns," you are 100% captured by the worldview of RW media.
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Eh David, you like me live in WA. Universal background checks supposedly poll at 90%. But, a universal background check referendum only got 65%. Because, rightly, said referendum would've made a BG check needed for friend/family gun moves, which unfortunately, many otherwise pro-BG check oppose.
But I guarantee you that the vast majority of people who say "background checks have 90% support and Democrat's don't push it because they're too centrist" don't think family/friend exchanges shouldn't need background checks.
Sure, but I bet if that came up for vote in a referendum, it wouldn't get the 90% people claim it has support for, just like an actual assault weapons ban w/ teeth wouldn't get the 55-60% you see in polling.
Of course it wouldn’t people say one thing and do the other all the time. Not to mention once the Democratic Party gets done with their fiddling it usually takes a law from common sense to toxic garbage overnight
It's worth noting ballot measures on gun control often heavily underperform public opinion polls, for instance a universal background check measure failed in Maine despite universal background checks typically polling 80% or 90%+ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_Maine_Question_3?wprov=sfla1
Democratic timidity on guns is what people are reflecting. A hard stance on keeping guns out of the hands of kids, criminals, and holding big gun manufacturers accountable for their products safety failures would be popular with 70% of the population.
What do you mean when you say the products safety failure? You talking about defects in the gun? Or holding a manufacturer responsible because someone misused their product?
Most gun manufacturers do not automatically include all of the safety features that could be incorporated into them. For example, you could require guns be sold with bio-metric trigger locks, or even fingerprint safeties on triggers. That'd drop the number of child deaths overnight.
Most people I know would avoid them over reliability concerns. Maybe politicians can blaze a trail and require all their security personnel be a test market for those weapons.
My iPhone from a decade ago had a 100% success rate with the little fingerprint scanner so I doubt that the gun industry can't make this as reliable as those were.
Nobody wants that bullshit just like nobody wants more touchscreens in cars. Kids not getting access to a gun is a solved problem, it’s called a safe, but you can’t fix stupid owners who won’t secure them.
1) Manufacturers can add those with minimal costs. Cars have to have basic safety features even if people don't wear seatbelts and drive recklessly.
2) I'm also in favor of prosecuting people who don't store their guns safely to the maximum extent of the law.
You are taking about two separate issues something having the basic safety features verses something having the latest version of technology. The difference between your IPhone and a gun is a life doesn’t depend on you opening your iPhone on the first try.
Imean, if my hands and/or screen are somewhat dirty I takes a couple tries to get a fingerprint read. The whole thing about guns is that when you need one you need it to work flawlessly, right now, and the tech you're referencing isn't great at doing that. 1/2
I think the real problem with the dems gun position is that it won't really solve the problems or too many guns and how easy it is for bad people to get them and all it does is motivate the gun fanatics to oppose dems.
Don't think moving right will work - not sure what will.
It's amazing to watch ICE arrest people without identification or warrants, in unmarked cars and wearing masks, place them into concentration camps and then defy court orders without consequences, and then listen to a centrist liberal pretend it's 1992 and the world is normal and we need gun reform.
I support safe storage laws when there are minors in the house. While I believe adults should also store them safely I don’t believe in a law requiring adults to do so
Could say the same thing about taxing rich people more. I continue to be amazed that this VERY popular idea is barely on the radar of most Democrats. I wonder why…
Citizens United.
Who is gong to hand millions over to someone who will raise their taxes?
The right wingers on the SCOTUS knew what they were doing and that it would result in an oligarchy.
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But tolerating individual heterodoxy from candidates running in challenging jurisdictions would be helpful & wise.
2) I'm also in favor of prosecuting people who don't store their guns safely to the maximum extent of the law.
Don't think moving right will work - not sure what will.
Who is gong to hand millions over to someone who will raise their taxes?
The right wingers on the SCOTUS knew what they were doing and that it would result in an oligarchy.