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Us? There has only been 9 school shootings, since 1975. I voted recently for NDP for my MP, my riding voted for a Conservative MP. Liberals won as a minority government, with Conservatives and Bloc Québécois coming in 2nd and 3rd.
Australia used to be full of guns, until the government peacefully bought back guns.
I still think U.S. citizens have too many guns.
The number of guns we have is completely irrelevant to the matter at hand. The relevant issue is the opinions of the people who would actually be affected by the law.
Gun control is one of the major reasons why people in 42 of our 50 states are dissatisfied with the Democrats. Gun control is one of the major reasons why Trump is now in office.
Democratic leadership should have learned this lesson two decades ago, when our Federal Assault Weapons Ban sunsetted, Democrats couldn't get it renewed, and the US went from generally banning concealed carry to generally licensing it. Failing to recognize that fact in 2004, Democratic leadership should have picked up on it from pro-gun legislation passing in 42 states. But no, they were hell bent on pushing 1980's gun control efforts, and ignoring any pushback against that position.
Democratic leadership refusing to follow the will of the people is how the US got itself in this disaster.
The assault weapons ban in Australia forced the retirement of the entire set of politicians who voted for it.
They have no regrets, it is a good law and makes their country a better place to live for them and their children.
The assault weapons ban the US had from 1994 to 2004 didn't force the retirement of the entire set of politicians who voted for it. It simply drove the majority position across party lines, and left everyone wondering how the hell the Democrats become so out of touch with their own constituents.
Gotta love that freedum:
https://ohiocapitaljournal.com/2022/06/15/did-the-assault-weapons-ban-of-1994-bring-down-mass-shootings-heres-what-the-data-tells-us/
Dropping gun control, we would have had the political capital to enact universal health care, which would save several hundred thousand lives a year, and improve the quality of life of millions more.
Trying to force gun control got us Trump and UnitedHealth, without actually achieving gun control: no federal measures have passed since 1994, and 42 States have enacted pro-gun laws since 2004.
Was it worth it?
Pushing gun control with a sunset clause was pretty dumb, in hindsight.
Letting Russia take Crimea in 2014 was pretty dumb, in hindsight.
It's easy to sit here today and judge the idiots of the past based on what we know now.
If I had a time machine and mind control ray would I go back and make them do it differently? Sure. Right after I told 2011 me to buy 1000 more bitcoin for $4 each and hold them until $50K.
Even then, they didn't have the support to implement it without that sunset. They hoped that support would grow and it would be easy to renew.
It didn't.
Rather than accept that gun control had become a losing issue, they doubled down, making it a central focus of every campaign across the country. They alienated more and more Democrats, year after year.
They claim they want "common sense gun control", then vote against measures that would actually achieve it, such as public access to NICS. Why? Because they don't want the public using NICS; they don't want the public selling guns at all. They took that approach straight out of the "Abstinence Only" playbook.