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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A lot of regular Republican and Republican-leaning voters are in favor of some gun control measures. Not as many as Democrats but there’s less daylight there than you might think. They, too, have kids in school, they go to parties and events, they worry about their safety just as much. The politicians and the conservative judiciary are way out of step with the voters on the gun control issue and it’s becoming a huge problem. [/quote]

No there is no daylight between the republican base and leadership on guns. That is the media spin. Republicans, conservatives and specially libertarians love the gun culture, gun violence and want more guns on the street.

Why do you think people vote republicans? [/quote]

Nobody loves senseless violence. Stop being inflammatory.  Just because someone doesn’t agree with your preferred policy response to a problem doesn’t mean that someone loves the outcome of the problem. Anti-prohibitionists don’t love alcohol-related deaths. Pro-choice people don’t love the need for millions of abortions. Anti-immigration enforcement advocates don’t love what is happening at the border or in our cities. Criminal Justice reform advocates don’t love the spike in crime.  It’s a disagreement between two sides.

I graduated from high school in 1999. That was the year of Columbine. While it wasn’t the first school shooting, in part because of the video footage, it shocked us the most until Sandy Hook came along. Guns are a major problem, but they aren’t the only problem here. Clearly we have a bankrupt culture producing alienated individuals.  Nobody has done anything to address that culture over nearly 25 years since Columbine.  This tribalism and demonization of political opponents has led to the stalemate in the issue. I’m not finding the right words here, but Megyn Kelly had some tweets on the topic last night. 
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Other countries have the same mental health issues. Other countries enacted gun control following shootings.  Republicans like Kelly don't give AF about other possible solutions like mental health because they vote to decrease funding to those programs. And by the way I am not even advocating to remove guns from lawful owners but it floors me that there is so little regulation in this country. It's insanity.  Lawful, sane gun owners have no problems with background checks, not allowing DV perpetrators to have guns, and having a system to be able to trace guns.  Being against these measures absolutely means having blood on your hands. [/quote]

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