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[–] 30 points 2 years ago (3 children)

This has been said about many issues in the past. Effecting change isn't easy but giving up doesn't help. Americans support gun control. Only our crappy political system stands in the way.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Americans support gun control. Only our crappy political system stands in the way.

    What do you think the other person meant when they said, "It’s never passing through this Congress, and if it ever did, the Supreme Court would strike it down."?

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  • [–] -1 points 2 years ago

    I disagree on giving up on a political issue only because it wouldn't pass right now. Politics is compromise. If you only take positions which are already on the line of compromise you've already lost.

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  • [–] -1 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    This has been said about many issues in the past.

    Which issues? Civil Rights? Gay marriage?

    Those are issues in which the American people were opposed, and then societal views changed. As you pointed out, that isn't the case here. Americans already favor reform, but they aren't going to vote these people out based on the status quo.

    Newtown was the wake up call, if nothing changes after a bunch of small children get massacred, you're not getting change. Not without wholesale changes. Proposing an AWB is political theater, nothing more.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago*

    If it's popular, why wouldn't the Democrats keep fighting for it?

    Whether it will realistically happen anytime soon, yeah I'd say the odds are very low.

    But let's not just give up as it can't ever happen.

    Also "political theater" is like half of actual politics, so don't knock it too easily :P

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