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Re:What We Learned from a Year of Americans ‘Risking It’ Wit... by nopriorarrests on Friday December 28, 2018 @05:09PM (#18779864)
Well, if you are a gun nut, your only options are to support Trump or support his opponents who want to restrict guns in a very serious way. Naturally, you still support Trump even after bump stock ban. This is perfectly rational. Nothing partisanship about it, IMO.
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Re:What We Learned from a Year of Americans ‘Risking It’ Wit... by maxxxxx on Friday December 28, 2018 @06:38PM (#18780395)
"support his opponents who want to restrict guns in a very serious way."

Is that accurate? Sounds more like NRA propaganda to me to keep people in line.

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Re:What We Learned from a Year of Americans ‘Risking It’ Wit... by krapp on Friday December 28, 2018 @05:17PM (#18779922)
Supporting Trump even when he bans bump stocks when one would oppose Democrats doing the same, and believing Democrats will always be worse than Republicans on gun control, is the definition of partisanship.

The actual truth is both parties believe in gun control and both parties believe in the Second Amendment. One side just panders to gun owners and the NRA more than the other.

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Re:What We Learned from a Year of Americans ‘Risking It’ Wit... by nopriorarrests on Friday December 28, 2018 @05:24PM (#18779970)
What are their options? Form a third party?

And, tbh, democrats do not hold NRA in high regard, so thinking that they always be worse on gun control sounds like a reasonable assumption to me.

I mean, I get your point, but guns does not illustrate it well.

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Re:What We Learned from a Year of Americans ‘Risking It’ Wit... by krapp on Friday December 28, 2018 @06:30PM (#18780347)
I'm just saying, the non-partisan choice would be to treat Trump or any Republican the same as any Democrat, based on their actions and not their affiliation.

As far as their options, it depends on what they want. If they want the complete repeal of all gun laws... no lawmaker is going to support that. Everything else is a matter of negotiation, though.

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