Candidate for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States.
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And we need them to not be available so that we can fend off mass shooters in our schools. If you’re afraid of fascism, be afraid of the fact that your government is such a handmaiden to gun manufacturers. The collusion of government and corporate power is what fascism IS.
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That bullshit just isn’t going to fly anymore. Not this time. Nobody’s saying you can’t have guns.
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You realize that right now we can’t even get Congress to pass a law to keep them from getting in the hands of criminals to begin with.
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Security guards get shot. The idea that a security guard could have kept that young man from entering the school when an entire police force couldn’t is absurd. The security guard was shot in Buffalo as well.
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Someone's right to own an AR-15 should not, does not, and must not override our right to guarantee safe schools.
Period.
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So we're just supposed to cower in front of a mass of bullies? If we demand a buy back for assault weapons but people can still own other guns, the govt didn't "take away their guns." Right now, the situation is taking away our CHILDREN.
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There was an assault weapons ban in this country between 1994 and 2004. It worked very well. (You're right we're not like Australia or parts of Europe; they're sane on this issue and we should be too)
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YES! Mass shootings went down 43% during that time, then tripled once the ban was repealed.
We had an assault weapon ban for 10 years: 1994-2004.
The world didn’t end.
People kept their (other) guns.
They bought new guns.
It was hardly an attack on gun ownership.
This is the least we can do.
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Along with calling 202-224-3121 to tell your Congresspeople you want them to pass HR8 and an assault weapons ban, there is also something else you can do.
Anytime you see someone spewing NRA propaganda online, push back with truth and statistics. I posted quite a bit of it here.
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Our position is not taking away your right to own a gun, but your position is taking away the right of every parent to feel reasonably secure that their child will not be killed at school.
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I’m sorry, but if you think the polite “adults”who took us to this point are anything other than dangerous then you have an odd idea of what an adult is.
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I don’t think that’s what he said at all. He’s talking about unregulated gun use and he makes that very clear.
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Please listen.
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The gun issue is a perfect example. Like healthcare & climate change it’s an example of corporate power tyrannizing us yes. But negativity about our prospects is not the answer. If enough of us say we’re going to change things and we’re not going to stop until we do, we will. 3/3
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A problem on the left is all the social approval given to cynicism & despair. I understand why people are depressed & angry about the oligarchy, but every time we talk about it like it’s an insurmountable problem we give it power. That’s exactly what they want you to think. 2/3
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I never hear people on the right say oh people will never vote for this or that or oh the system is too fucked up it’ll never happen; they see what they want and say ok let’s go make it happen. 1/3
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