Another Week, Another Shooting in America, Another Failure by Democrats.

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Another Week, Another Shooting in America, Another Failure by Democrats.

May 25, 2022

Blame lies ultimately with Democrats, because it’s their refusal to learn even a little bit about how moral messaging works that lets the Republicans cling to power using this among other idiotic wedge issues.

Gun responsibility. Gun responsibility. Gun responsibility. And a bit of protection.

I blame Democrats for the state of the gun responsibility debate, because they keep saying “gun control” (while Republicans say “liberty”). Until they learn, nothing can actually change. It’s 1000% on Democrats shoulders to lead on this issue, but they are so arrogant, that they actively refuse to learn how any of this works.

I see that you, Democrats, all have a lot of high level degrees, yes, you see yourselves as very rational. I get it. Very impressive. Now that I’ve acknowledge your merit, can you finally understand why that’s not enough?

This issue has to be about a moral truth — responsibility and protection — the responsibility of gun ownership, responsibility to protect our citizens from criminals, responsibility to protect the constitution, all that. No amount of explanation about why you need to be allowed to “control” us will ever, for one minute, have a snowball’s chance in hell, of making any progress. Fuck your control, just because. Deal with it. It’s about responsibility, and it’s about protection. Every time the know nothing Democrats talks about “control” they hand victory to Republicans. And they have not one clue why. And it’s not that they aren’t smart enough to figure it out — it’s that they are too fucking arrogant to even try. Republicans are basically cartoon villains at this point. That makes it worse, not better. Democrats LOSE TO CARTOON VILLAINS. God, fuck the Democrats.

It would be so easy to take the issue of gun responsibility, and the issue of reproductive liberty, away from the cartoon villains. When do we finally do it?