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All solid thoughts. Of course, Republican lawmakers also own the refusal to modify or regulate or reauthorize laws regulating, banning, or restricting guns or gun ownership. They also own Republican Supreme Court justices dismantling gun laws and in 2008 “finding” for the first time ever, an individual right to bear arms, instead of the right to form armed state militias, in the Heller ruling. How originalist of them!

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Aha- back to the trope that it is the fault of those bad old guns.

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Ah, the old trope that it’s people that kill people, and that it has nothing to do with the ridiculous and excessive proliferation of guns in this country, pushed by the NRA with the aid of a large portion of the population who live as cowards, imagining the world as a scary, scary place where one must be constantly on guard. Tell me, are you obtuse by nature or just arguing in bad faith? As for whether you live in fear, that’s a question you owe yourself an answer to, not me.

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I prefer the term "murder weapons".

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Is self defense included in your broad definition ? Are subsidence hunters who hunt to feed their family murderers? Which weapons are included in your definition ,does it include sharp Knives? Do weapons of war qualify? Handguns vs. long guns? Automatic vs. semi automatic? Nice but meaningless turn of phrase unless specifically defined.

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You MAGAts are an old trope just like the fascists!

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A libertarian , not a MAGA - a voter w/o a home who chooses between very imperfect candidates.

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No you are MAGA. Any idiot that agrees with Cannon & SCOTUS is a fucking moron

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Got a chip on your shoulder, eh?

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Of course, democrats own their own bad faith insistence on pushing the exact same set of gun control policies in response to every tragedy irrespective of whether they could have conceivably prevented it, which has poisoned the dialogue on the issue for a generation.

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The same solutions are always still needed.

I’m thrilled Manchin and Sinema are leaving soon. They’re way too proud of refusing to drop the 60 votes filibuster rule, seemingly unaware of how they’ve been played for enabling the Republicans to easily block passing everything that democracy needs.

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Don’t think it has to do with pride as much as $$$. Manchin and Sinema want to get paid, and the filibuster is the perfect vehicle to get that done without necessarily having their fingerp

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Why "bad faith"? It worked in other countries. Why is it bad faith to try the same thing here?

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