Don't Republicans have control of the Senate and the White House? Didn't Republicans have control of the House and the Senate in the latter part of Obama's presidency? Regardless of where you stand on the issue, you can't lay any sort of legislative inaction at the foot of Democrats, that's incredibly ass-backwards.
So few politicians want to put limits on access to guns and investigative background checks that it is doubtful america will take this course of action for the foreseeable future.
Don’t play those violent video games! According to Trump they are the reason for these shootings.
Oh and don’t listen to Marylin Mason. It was the reason for Columbine not the easy access to guns.They have a constitutional right to “bare arms”. Just like freedom of speech
the onus isn't on democrats, it's on republicans as they are the ones who keep preventing any gun safety bills being passed and are happily letting people die. And didn't Trump pass a bill allowing people with mental health issues to buy guns again?
Because he's proving himself to be out of touch, and a lot of left wingers don't like him. He appeals more to old people and probably centrists, but not to most left wingers (that I've seen anyway). Plus, he's been accused of inappropriately touching women as well, and that's definitely not going to help him.
USA and Britain are different. Was the gun culture strong and insane in Britain like it is here, where our Second Amendment guarantees us right to own guns (though this was back when guns were not even semiautomatic, I think?)?
"Bear arms"*Don’t play those violent video games! According to Trump they are the reason for these shootings.
They have a constitutional right to “bare arms”. Just like freedom of speech
Out of touch with what? Is he more or less out of touch than Trump? Newsflash, so-called "centrists" are more popular because more people from all alignments would be more willing to vote for them.
This is lip-service. If he wanted reform he wouldn't suggest pairing it with immigration reform, it would need no prerequisites. He's leveraging doing something about gun control against his version of immigration reform and when Democrats refuse to do that, he'll blame them for the inaction on the issue. Again, an important issue on the minds of many people is being used by him as a political football. But of course, MAGA people will use this opportunity to eat up everything he says about it and blame Democrats the next time there's a mass shooting. Or a lack of mental health services that they refuse to offer to the less fortunate.... OR, you know, videogames, like they're doing right now.
Undocumented immigrants are threats to national security in both their stress on already understaffed and overworked systems and infrastructure but also their access to guns.
That doesn't address anything I said. My point was that Trump is floating the idea of pairing them together in the same bill. Trump's idea of immigration reform would not have broad support from Democrats. If he actually cared about this issue he wouldn't put prerequisites on it like this.
Clearly the person who wrote it got it wrong
By that law, only muskets from the 18th century should be legal. How many undocumented immigrants have participated in a mass shootings? How many citizens have participants in a mass shootings? While I agree people should take legal procedures in becoming immigrants, claiming they are a threat isn’t completely validated.
No he doesn't, he is full of shit. and even if he does, McConnell will block him.
In regards to whom? To their bases, I'd say Biden would be more out of touch except to maybe centrists and old sharts who are okay with him being creep. Are centrists really that popular though? Maybe among moderates, but I don't see them being that popular. The right will go with whoever aligns with their values, and it'd take a fair right winger to think about voting center. The left (or at least I) may not think centrists are hard enough on bigoted/hateful stancse and/or stuff like misogyny and issues that plague us. I certainly think Biden would defer to republicans more than most democrats would. They'd prefer someone like Warren.
This is incorrect, and the past few days have shown that white supremacists are bigger threats to national security with their domestic terrorism. I think we've had more right wing white supremacists kill Americans than Muslims since 9/11, including 9/11.
That's simply not true, there's plenty of NeverTrump Republicans and Independents who would vote for Biden over Trump.
Political violence in general is the issue, not necessarily what they stand for. Don't forget, the Dayton shooter was a left wing extremist... and it's not a coincidence that extremism on both sides can result in the same sort of atrocities.
About time I saw someone else bring this up. There's commonalities in behavior between all humans, even the most admirable and the most heinous. I just hope more people would realized that and stop trying to act like there's a world of difference between them and "the other."
There still is though, especially when we talk about mass shootings like this. It's almost also a white conservative male. And it doesn't help that the president refuses to take a firm stance against the extreme Right, even emboldening them in some situations. He refuses to do it not because he agrees with everything they stand for, he does it because they support him. He has no backbone.
Well, that's disappointing. Yeah, there are differences between groups, but focusing on the similarities first and differences second makes people more ambitious when looks at greatness, more humble when looking at wrongdoings or failure, and makes everyone seem less like some "other thing" and more human. It just seems far more productive to me.
I'd be skeptical of attempts to get never trump republicans on board. Realistically speaking democrats should aim to get younger voters to show up and vote and independents, both of whom lean left. Pandering to never trumpers as a democratic candidate sounds like pandering to people who at a minimum loath you at the expense of those you should be aiming to have as a base. And this also sounds like hillary's election strategy back in 2016. And I can't stress enough how much of a loser she is thanks to it.
Are you sure? Many terrorist acts have been committed by islamic extremists who came from abroad or folks here who were indoctrinated by them. These few america criminals are uncommonly rare and negligible if we're keeping count. If what you say is true, there wouldnt be this narrative that immigration/illegal and vetting/banning of certain countries is bad and necessary.
What makes you think they would? "NeverTrump" part? Plus, I did say "fair," which would include republicans like McCain (the only example I can think of) who were/are against Trump.
Back it up, provide proof. These few American criminals aren't uncommonly rare and negligible, and racism isn't negligible, it's prevalent. I don't know what rock you live under, but they've committed too many violent acts towards others just because of different skin or ethnicity. From research I did long time ago, Muslims in America aren't dangerous, and you're more likely to be killed by a white supremacist than you are by a Muslim.
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