hey there Mr. Br0wn,
i am not sure i agree.
i tend to vote for Democrats but i am also a member of the NRA (was, my membership lapsed a few years back).
lots of Democrats in Montana, Colorado, Pennsylvania - here in North Carolina, really cherish the right to bear arms.
I'm happy to hear it.
Unfortunately for all of those Democratic voters, the Democratic party doesn't respect an individual's right to keep and bear arms.
The Democratic party openly calls for gun bans and shutting down firearms manufacturers within the offical party platform:
"We can focus on effective enforcement of existing laws, especially strengthening our background check system, and we can work together to enact commonsense improvements--like reinstating the assault weapons ban and closing the gun show loophole"
-Democratic party platform, 2000
"To build on the success of the lifesaving Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act, we will expand and strengthen background checks and close dangerous loopholes in our current laws; repeal the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act (PLCAA) to revoke the dangerous legal immunity protections gun makers and sellers now enjoy; and keep weapons of war—such as assault weapons and large capacity ammunition magazines (LCAM's)—off our streets."
-Democratic party platform, 2016
Unfortunately, Democratic voters who support the Second Amendment, are out of step with their party leadership.
i don't want to go down this rabbit hole, but even Manchin-Toomey was bipartisan legislation.
Thankfully it failed. It's no one's business but my own if I choose to own guns, how many, what kind, or where they are.
A universal background check also deprives me of my basic property rights. If you need permission from the government in order to sell your property, it's not really your property.
The sign of true property ownership is the ability to keep, sell, gift, alter, destroy, or otherwise dispose of your property as you see fit. So long as no one is harmed in the commission of any of these acts, you're perfectly free to do it. One does not even need a good reason in order to exercise a property right.
Requiring a government permission slip in order to proceed is an infringement of the most basic of property rights.
Mrs. Clinton herself is so risk averse - relentless triangulator that she is - that she would have been "leading from behind" on any gun legislation, had she become POTUS.
I have to disagree on this one.
Hillary Clinton actively campaignd for gun control during the 2016 election.
We would currently be discussing the next potential assault weapons ban legislation had she won office.
This isn't at all shocking if you read the democratic party platform throughout history. Democrats have been trying to disarm Blacks and Republicans since post Civil War reconstruction.
-Farmer "Mule D*ick" Brown
Travel well friend.
