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RE: America Divided: Second Civil War Coming?
February 23, 2017 at 12:32 pm
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Seeing as how dems don't mind owning a gun, and repubs don't mind taking guns away from Some People™, not very many, I'd wager. The minute that some black advocacy group shows up to commandeer a federal building armed with "assualt weapons", though... it'll be gun bans for one and all, true bipartisan cooperation, lol.
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America Divided: Second Civil War Coming?
February 23, 2017 at 12:41 pm
(February 23, 2017 at 12:29 pm)Mister Agenda Wrote: Looks like gun sales are climbing for African Americans and Democrats, as is liberal membership in gun clubs.
Not that I think there will be an actual widespread outbreak of violence between libs and pubs, or that the trend will continue.
I wonder how many publicans would switch to Dem if Dems were more pro-gun ownership?
I would vote more moderately if gun rights were secure on both sides.
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RE: America Divided: Second Civil War Coming?
February 23, 2017 at 1:11 pm
(February 23, 2017 at 12:29 pm)Mister Agenda Wrote: Looks like gun sales are climbing for African Americans and Democrats, as is liberal membership in gun clubs.
Not that I think there will be an actual widespread outbreak of violence between libs and pubs, or that the trend will continue.
I wonder how many publicans would switch to Dem if Dems were more pro-gun ownership?
It will take more than that.
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RE: America Divided: Second Civil War Coming?
February 23, 2017 at 2:19 pm
(February 23, 2017 at 12:29 pm)Mister Agenda Wrote: Looks like gun sales are climbing for African Americans and Democrats, as is liberal membership in gun clubs.
Not that I think there will be an actual widespread outbreak of violence between libs and pubs, or that the trend will continue.
I wonder how many publicans would switch to Dem if Dems were more pro-gun ownership?
Up stream it was mentioned that ~40% of Dems were gun owners, so you're mooting there.
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RE: America Divided: Second Civil War Coming?
February 23, 2017 at 3:42 pm
Just checked out my favs. Rifle prices up, ammo stable.
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America Divided: Second Civil War Coming?
February 23, 2017 at 5:11 pm
If the democrats would buy my ammo, I would vote for them. They could issue a card like an EBT card that had ammo money put on it each month.
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RE: America Divided: Second Civil War Coming?
February 23, 2017 at 5:22 pm
People are using "the Democrats" and "the Republicans" like they're two monoliths. The US military is pretty balanced, both parties represented. Not every body in the US military handles guns, of course, but the philosophy is not so different between the two groups.
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RE: America Divided: Second Civil War Coming?
February 24, 2017 at 10:21 am
Gawdzilla Sama Wrote:Mister Agenda Wrote:Looks like gun sales are climbing for African Americans and Democrats, as is liberal membership in gun clubs.
Not that I think there will be an actual widespread outbreak of violence between libs and pubs, or that the trend will continue.
I wonder how many publicans would switch to Dem if Dems were more pro-gun ownership?
Up stream it was mentioned that ~40% of Dems were gun owners, so you're mooting there.
Yeah, I'm the one who mentioned it. Moderate gun ownership among Democrats doesn't translate into gun-ownership friendly (read: 2nd Amendment absolutist) political rhetoric. I mean, 'reasonable regulation'? Clearly they're gonna come take muh guns!
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RE: America Divided: Second Civil War Coming?
February 24, 2017 at 11:55 am
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Both republicans -and- democrats agree on the issue of reasonable gun regulations. 80% of americans are either satisfied with current gun laws, or want stricter gun laws. A quarter of the reminder don't like the gun laws, but want to keep them as they are, and another quarter of the remainder had no opinion, responding to a gallup poll. That leaves a vanishingly marginal percentage of americans who want relaxed gun control.
You can always find a useful idiot to pull the "cold dead hands" routine on the teevees.....but those nutballs are in no way indicative of public opinion on the matter.
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RE: America Divided: Second Civil War Coming?
February 24, 2017 at 1:28 pm
(February 22, 2017 at 9:51 pm)Jenny A Wrote: But, if the popular vote continues to be unrepresented or grossly underrepresented , we might indeed have civil war.
If CA and NY try to secede...I'm not so sure anyone will try to stop them.
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