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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yeah, okay.  It's clear that OP doesn't want to discuss the issues and would rather just respond to everyone who disagrees with the exact same talking points about how "Clinton did XYZ, and it's unacceptable under any circumstances whatsoever".  No real need to further engage.

The one thing I will say, however, is that it's totally disingenuous to ignore gun control as a women's issue when otherwise casting such a broad net as to include NAFTA.  There's a reason that one of the biggest advocacy groups for gun control is called the "Million Mom March"...gun violence/accidents both against women and against their children and partners does have significant impact on women's lives.  It tears apart the communities where women are the most impoverished and vulnerable.  OP, and whomever, can define feminism however they want.  But a feminism that insists on viewing the TPP as a major feminist issue but ignores gun control is a bizarre one indeed.[/quote]

I am not ignoring gun control. I stated quite clearly that I do not agree with Sanders on all of his gun control decisions but I also do not think it is appropriate to blame him for gun violence against women.[/quote]

So, it isn't appropriate to blame Sanders for his longstanding (and politically expedient) opposition to gun control as a congressional representative and US Senator, but it's totally fine to blame Clinton for policies enacted before she held elected office? [/quote]

He isn't "opposed to gun control" unless by "gun control" you actually mean "make ownership of guns illegal."[/quote]

False.  Read his votes.  He also opposes short waiting periods.  He opposed the Brady Bill twice.  He opposed trigger locks.  He opposed liability for gun manufacturers, which might've led to safety features on guns.  He voted for allowing guns in National Parks.

The NRA helped Bernie Sanders get elected to Congress.

[quote]A few days before Election Day in 1990, the National Rifle Association sent a letter to its 12,000 members in Vermont, with an urgent message about the race for the state’s single House seat.  Vote for the socialist, the gun rights group said. It’s important. “Bernie Sanders is a more honorable choice for Vermont sportsmen than Peter Smith,” wrote Wayne LaPierre, who was — and still is — a top official at the national NRA, backing Sanders over the Republican incumbent.

“Unlike some people, [u]I won’t change my views on the subject[/u],” he told one pro-gun group.

After he was elected, Sanders stuck to the assurances he had given gun rights groups. In 1991, he voted against a measure that would have required a seven-day waiting period to buy a gun. In 1993, Sanders voted against a broader version of the bill — named for James Brady, the White House press secretary who was shot in the 1981 attempt on President Ronald Reagan’s life — that became law.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/how-the-nra-helped-put-bernie-sanders-in-congress/2015/07/19/ed1be26c-2bfe-11e5-bd33-395c05608059_story.html[/quote][/quote]

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