Gun control backers are really, really sick of playing nice

[applegrove]

Gun control backers are really, really sick of playing nice

By Amber Phillips at the Washington Post

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/06/21/gun-control-backers-are-sick-of-playing-nice/

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You're either with us — or you're with the terrorists.

That's the bumper-sticker argument gun control supporters appear to be picking up and running with after the Orlando massacre — a massive rhetorical amping-up in the wake of the most deadly mass shooting in American history.

"It is now accurate to say that one party believes the Second Amendment extends to terrorists and the other party does not," said Jim Kessler, a leading gun control advocate with the centrist think tank Third Way.

Gun control supporters say reframing the gun debate in a with-us-or-against-us context is aimed at putting pro-gun Republicans in a tough spot politically — and helping them leverage the fact that 80 to 90 percent of Americans consistently support gun control policies like expanding background checks.


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[avebury]

1. "It is now accurate to say that one party believes the Second Amendment extends

to terrorists and the other party does not,..."

That is a pretty effective way to spin it to the public. It puts the backs of the Republicans up against the wall and certailnly prevents them from claiming that they are better at protecting theis country than the Democrats.

[applegrove]

2. This meme cannot be posted enough.

[avebury]

3. It also has the bonus of being usable against Trump as well.

When you support the NRA you support ISIS.

[applegrove]

4. Having gun control will afterall save lives. It is not just politics. It is lives saved.

[avebury]

5. Yes it does but saving lives will never get the Republicans to the table.

Link them to ISIS and their party will either flame out of grow up and deal with a very real issue.

If you make the NRA totally toxic you diminish their control.

[hack89]

7. To bad neither party respects due process

but I guess that makes a bad bumper sticker.

[JaneyVee]

8. Republicans call people terrorist enablers, yet...

Theyre the ones voting to make it easier for terrorists to get guns.