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Why don't democrats make gun control their top priority?

Posted on 10/3/17 at 10:43 pm
Posted by Bjorn Cyborg
Member since Sep 2016
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Posted on 10/3/17 at 10:43 pm
If this is such an issue and they feel so strongly about it, I think gun control should be the top plank in their platform.

But it's not. And it won't be. And it wasn't when they had total control of all facets of government.

Because they don't really care about it. They just like to virtue signal to their lib base.

They are just like republicans on healthcare. All talk, no action.
Posted by thetigerman
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Member since Sep 2006
3630 posts
Posted on 10/3/17 at 10:44 pm to
They care about it, but fear the politics.
Posted by airfernando
Member since Oct 2015
15248 posts
Posted on 10/3/17 at 10:46 pm to
You'd think clinging to what little power they have left would be top priority, but they don't act like it.
Posted by Tiger985
Member since Nov 2006
6494 posts
Posted on 10/3/17 at 10:51 pm to
Dems complaining about gun control laws is the same as Republicans complaining about Obamacare.

Both use the issue for politics but didn't do shite when they had the chance.

Dems and Obama had 2 years to act if they had issues with guns. They didn't do shite.

Republicans are doing the same now with just about everything.

Posted by Sidicous
Middle of Nowhere
Member since Aug 2015
17380 posts
Posted on 10/3/17 at 10:52 pm to
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Why don't democrats make gun control their top priority?


Because we already point and laugh at them as it is.
Posted by el Gaucho
He/They
Member since Dec 2010
53326 posts
Posted on 10/3/17 at 10:52 pm to
they have to get their menstrual cramps under control first
Posted by HueyP
Lubbock
Member since Nov 2008
3155 posts
Posted on 10/3/17 at 10:53 pm to
I saw Hillary on tv bitching about republicans not taking gun control seriously.
Bill/ Hillary + Obama = 16 years of Democratic control. Yet no meaningful gun control was passed. Who do the Dems have to blame?
This is all a political game.
Posted by Rougarou13
Brookhaven MS
Member since Feb 2015
6839 posts
Posted on 10/3/17 at 10:54 pm to
Because their politics can only survive on fear and divisiveness. They know that if they stand a chance of passing any kind of gun regulation it would have to be after a tragedy.
Posted by saintsfan1977
West Monroe, from Cajun country
Member since Jun 2010
7815 posts
Posted on 10/3/17 at 11:03 pm to
Because they have their hands in the gun manufacturers cookie jar. One hand washes the other. You realize how much profit is being made every time the mention of gun reform,laws,bans etc.? Alot.
Posted by Celery
Nuevo York
Member since Nov 2010
11105 posts
Posted on 10/3/17 at 11:13 pm to
Politics
Posted by Statestreet
Gueydan
Member since Sep 2008
12979 posts
Posted on 10/4/17 at 5:47 am to
quote:

Why don't democrats make gun control their top priority? g


They are still working out their pilot program in Chicago and they are killing it.
Posted by Wtodd
Tampa, FL
Member since Oct 2013
67524 posts
Posted on 10/4/17 at 7:01 am to
The Dems are making control of everything their priority
Posted by TrueTiger
Chicken's most valuable
Member since Sep 2004
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Posted on 10/4/17 at 7:15 am to
Posted by civiltiger07
Baton Rouge
Member since Dec 2011
14062 posts
Posted on 10/4/17 at 7:21 am to
because they have lost many jobs for passing gun control bills.
Posted by Tridentds
Sugar Land
Member since Aug 2011
20608 posts
Posted on 10/4/17 at 7:43 am to
They only use it as a talking point and as an election issue. Just grandstanding.

Once again they will put together some kind of 50 page bill to vote on with 1 or 2 items in it about about restricting gun purchases to people with mental issues, etc...

The actual bill will be about some increased spending, some social program, etc... that they know Republicans will not support. It will fail. Instead of CNN, MSNBC, NBC, etc... talking about the bill and why it didn't pass, they will come out and say Republicans and the NRA didn't want to restrict gun sales to mentally ill people so they voted against the bill.

Oh so predictable.
Posted by Chimlim
Baton Rouge, LA
Member since Jul 2005
17716 posts
Posted on 10/4/17 at 8:09 am to
It is a priority for them, but they know that most Americans do not support it. This is why they try to push it during times of grief, they know the best chance of getting support for gun control is during highly emotional times when Americans aren't thinking straight.
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