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Gun Control & RKBA
In reply to the discussion: Ed Schultz "Democrats did themselves NO favors last night. [View all]Eleanors38
(18,318 posts)60. Central to all this is the role of MSM. It favors both...
1). Hillary Clinton
2). Gun control/bans
As I predicted several months ago, it is no surprise that MSM is going all in to coverage of gun crime and Hillary's statements favoring gun control; they sure don't want Sanders for a host of reasons, and they want to ride high again on an issue they built up 30 - 40 yrs ago, only to have their ass handed to them. This is really about corporate centrism and how to keep it in power. I also believe the locus of gun control is with corporate centrism; the left is ambivalent on guns, and in any case an outlier since LBJ with little influence except through Sanders. And NO ONE in the elites, be it the Democratic Party, MSM, or the financial sector wants a popular Left to succeed.
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Ed Schultz "Democrats did themselves NO favors last night. [View all]
virginia mountainman
Oct 2015
OP
He's already been on time outs at Discussionist, I won't say his user name over there as
GGJohn
Oct 2015
#53
Would it be possible for groups like this to work towards preventing gun from being in the hands of
Thinkingabout
Oct 2015
#4
It was a great debate, and I'm grateful they didn't dwell too long on gun control. eom.
GGJohn
Oct 2015
#8
Unlike you, most Iowans do not support Zimmerman. We do not support murder.
stone space
Oct 2015
#36
He'll be back on Nov 3rd, when the TWO timeouts from Aug 3rd come off his hide record
Lurks Often
Oct 2015
#44
people with mentally ill obsession with guns arent voting for democrats under any circumstances nt
msongs
Oct 2015
#9
I don't fear my guns "will be taken away." I fear the Democratic Party's increasing irrelevancy.
Eleanors38
Oct 2015
#27