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Biden is doing this to drive a wedge into Republicans. The gun nuts and the ones that don't care about guns will have differing opinions because now gun violence affects them directly. It's really smart.

Biden looks presidential. Trump has three choices:

1. Come out against AR-15s, for obvious reasons. This makes gun nuts less likely to vote for him.

2. Come out in favor of AR-15s. He looks insane to Republicans who don't care about guns.

3. Trump ignores the issue or waffles and looks unpresidential.

Number 3 is most likely. Of course the correct answer is number 4: propose a competing policy that is nuanced. But that's impossible for trump.

Bernie had this right. Despite being pretty progressive, he wasn't for outlawing semiautomatic firearms because they were black and looked scary. He believed that the right to arms was justified. This "AR Ban" is a great way to lose a lot of independents, and even some hard D voters like myself. There are a lot of dems who carry, and a lot of them who own the very firearms he wants to ban.

Holy deep fried frankenfuck will the Democrats NEVER LEARN?!?!?!?!

AFTER!

You talk about guns AFTER the election!

What in the actual pogostickingpopejohnpaul is he THINKING?!?!?

The optics are 1000% awful here.

Uvalde wasn't enough, but a potshot at the planet's most notorious living felon is?

Nah, I think I'll keep my shit and wait for the far right to move.

The fuckin scenario we are in I swear.

Far right: let's kill the left and do fascism.

Democrats: let's ban weapons right now while there's threats of violence against democrats.

Really?

Just as dumb as when Beto said it before his election...

It'll never pass, and he thinks saying it will get votes, but all it does is motivate idiots to vote trump, even tho he actually did an executive action to try and close a loophole.

It might not have stood, but it worked for a couple of years.

Banning guns is a losing policy for democrats. It only ever hurts them. I really wish they'd stop lighting political capital on fire with statements like this

It seems like such a lazy non-solution. Essentially telling shooters "Hey, from now on, you can only use ALL THE OTHER GUNS" as if that solves something.

This is like begging for Republicans to start making up conspiracies about how the Democrats set this all up to take away their gun rights.

I can think of literally no better reason to keep ARs legal than the events of last week.

Braindead take, is Biden gonna come to my rescue when some christofascist militia has me on my knees in front of a ditch?

I'll give up my guns after the christo-facists give up theirs, not before.

FUCK

its like he's trying to lose

this is not going to get anyone excited about voting for him, but it will galvanize the opposition and push swing voters into staying home on election day at the very least

I dunno, it didn't work out so well for Beto.

That fucking horrible assassination attempt would have happened with or without the AR, this is just another knee-jerk emotional reaction, and it could NOT come at a worse time (pre-election). We're fucked.

Nooo, let’s not. We’re gonna need those pretty soon from the looks of it.

Handguns used in ~2/3 of all gun murders in the U.S.: I sleep

AR-15 used in one assassination attempt of geriatric running for president in 2024: REAL SHIT

Anyone looking to ban weapons must not believe Jan 6th was a genuine insurrection.

Why, oh why, would you disarm the people and give the state a monopoly on violence when that state is teetering on the edge of fascism.

This is a fucking retarded take and I vote Democrat. Jesus.

I want you to imagine the following scenario:

The RIAA: "Internet file sharing of mp3s is eating into our profits. Government, we want you to ban the Rio Volt SP250 mp3 player."

The Government: "Yes, banning only that specific make and model of mp3 player and none of the rest of Rio's product catalog, or any mp3 players manufactured by any other brand, will completely and permanently address this scourge of copyright infringement. Consider it done."

That's you! That's how DUMB you sound!

--GLaDOS.

Here's what happens when you ban a firearm by name: manufacturers change some extremely minor detail, change the model number, and keep selling it. The Tec-9 open bolt machine pistol was used in a few school shootings in the 90's, most prominently the Columbine massacre. California banned the gun by name in state law. The manufacturer responded by moving the sling ring from one side of the gun to the other and calling it the Tec-DC9, with "DC" standing for "Designed for California."

It's not an engineering problem. Banning individual makes and models is how you solve (or at least end) an engineering problem. This is a culture problem.

Fucking typical.

Something comes close to removing a problem created by the conservatives and the Democrats want to take it away!

This does nothing to motivate the left and everything to motivate the right....

Biden, are you TRYING to lose?

The only way this is possible is by rewriting the Constitution. FDR was the last president willing to, and that definitely didn't happen.

Biden doesn't have Constitution rewriting level support.

The type of rifle isn't the problem here. If the shooter had used something better it's likely Trump wouldn't have survived.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Texas_tower_shooting

"Charles Whitman killed seventeen individuals and wounded at least thirty-one others over the course of thirteen hours before he was killed on the observation deck of the UT Tower on August 1, 1966.[72]"

And of course, infamously:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_John_F._Kennedy

Biden tries to throw a sure thing, again.