Gun Control & RKBA
In reply to the discussion: I think this paragraph from The New Yorker really sums up the gun control debate here on DU [View all]I'm a liberal. My side lost. And it lost because of irrational screamers who forgot that they were members of the party and the President who have explicitly stated that individual firearm ownership is a right.
Just so we can put the gun control position in perspective, Gabrielle Giffords still owns and still shoots a high-capacity, semi-auto pistol which would currently be illegal to buy in or transport to New York or Connecticut. Which places many here on DU in the position of not just opposing the President and the Democratic Party platform, but insulting the beliefs of a liberal victim of a mass shooting with her own gun control organization.
So if your position is so extreme that you are throwing Gabrielle Giffords under the bus, I don't think you have much claim to representing the mainstream of either Democrats or the country in general and should not be surprised if that position costs you (and me) elections.
You're stinking up my party and I really wish you would go elsewhere.