Its time for Democrats to drop the gun control platform [View all]

[Dwayne Hicks]

Let us face the truth, the control platform is a losing platform. The more you talk about it the more people vote against you. There is nothing wrong with expanded background checks, and expanded mental health checks but this has all been tarnished by the gun ban crowd. The reason why we cannot have a rational discussion is also at the fault of the Democrats, with certain members still clinging to assault weapon bans, heavy restrictions on handguns (which are defacto bans). This is the one area where we as a party do not recognize reality. And the reality is a large majority do not want "assault weapons" banned including myself. It will do nothing to curb the violence we see it didn't back then (when the ban was in effect) and it certainly will not now. The objective should be to close the loopholes in the southern states (where most of the illegal firearms come from) but tightening background checks and oversight at gun shows and private sales. But none of that will happen as long as Democrats (even if its a minority of them) keep discussing banning certain guns based on appearance and fear factor. Gun control is a losing platform every time and only costs votes which drives the Democrats further away from being able to achieve any sort of gun control sanity. Drop gun control.