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In reply to the discussion: How Bernie Sanders Helped Derail a Promising Legal Fight Against Gun Violence [View all]marble falls
(57,106 posts)as we're poised to take Congress, yet again.
I was totally against any sort of gun control 10 years ago on Constitutional grounds having very, very little to do with the second amendment, and more to do with privacy issues. Now I am almost totally against possession of any weapons beyond a very limited possession of handguns because these weapons are obviously a public health and safety danger. My feelings about privacy haven't changed but the nature surrounding the possession of weapons has.
I've never, ever owned a firearm.
It wasn't Bernie's support of firearms possession that killed anyone, it was the changing nature of the gun owning public that did. And now we need a very strict period of gun control and serious self examination by the public over how it seems logical to some to feel and say in public that dead children are the price of gun-nuts' freedom to carry and be OK with that.
BTW: the first campaign I ever worked on was Barry Goldwater's, the next was George McGovern's. We all change and evolve our positions. Well, at least Hillary, Bernie and I have.