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In reply to the discussion: Another day in America where we need nothing short of repealing the 2A and confiscating all guns. [View all]Tom Rinaldo
(22,911 posts)Advocating for the confiscation of all guns does require repealing the second amendment, which is a political process with a very high threshold needed to be met in order to succeed. In other words, it would not get 2/3rds of the current House, let alone the Senate. And then it would still need to be ratified by 3/4ths of the States.
What advocating for the repeal of all guns now does though is play right into the NRA play book. Every time anyone proposes a really sensible step forward, like universal background checks, or "red flag" laws, or banning high capacity cartridges, or outlawing combat type weapons, the NRA and Republicans scream out "they want to confiscate ALL your guns!"
You may wish this was not true, but when ever that charge sticks Democrats lose votes, which makes it much harder to elect a Congress that supports more limited but concrete steps to limit gun deaths.