Gavin Newsom wants to change the US constitution to stop gun violence – will he succeed?
Gavin Newsom wants to change the US constitution to stop gun violence – will he succeed?
No. Dems for some reason can’t figure out that they will never win against the 2nd amendment. A dem that supports the 2nd would be able to easily win in any purple district.
Honestly if they don’t understand their potential constituents they deserve to lose.
I've always held this belief as well, if dems dropped the gun control issue, they'd basically wipe out the republican party.
It’s like he watched Beto O’Rourke commit political suicide over guns and thought “I bet I can do that on a national scale.”
supports the second amendment
I think we should have a well-regulated militia. But I don’t think that every school child should be able to wield an AR-15. I guess that makes me anti-2nd?
Yes, because you call out the ar15. Most pro-2nd people see that gun as being the same as any other rifle and find the regulations around it to be ineffective.
The laws as they are now prevent just about every school child from buying a rifle of any kind. The cops simply hate enforcing gun laws against people they feel are just like them. How many shootings now have you read something like 'The alleged shooter was known to police' or someone had already complained or asked for wellness checks?
You’re losing if you can’t get your rep elected.
Considering it takes 2/3’s of both houses to start the process, if they can’t get a bill through, they’re not gonna get an amendment through. And that’s just to get started.
No he won't.
If he succeeded in calling a convention the most likely outcome would be an abortion ban and national permitless concealed carry.
I'm all for gun control, but honestly it's not worth the political fight. Dems should drop it from their platform for 10 years and fight the more important rights like taxing the rich, universal healthcare, climate change, and environmental protection. Far more lives would be saved from those than from gun control.
Also if they want to they could probably get a good bit of support by sponsoring independent ranges and firearm safety classes. Politically unaligned regional ranges would be fucken great to have, no having to worry about them being NRA bootlickers.
Actually, it’s becoming more and more of a winner in elections
No he won't. He's an idiot and it is a horrible idea.
The proposed amendment includes raising the federal age to buy a gun from 18 to 21, banning so-called assault weapons and mandating universal background checks and a waiting period between the purchase of a gun and its delivery.
It.. it doesn't sound horrible, but I'm not American so I probably underestimate how important immediate gun access is to keep the wheels turning.
As far as I know everything except the banning of the assault weapons is very popular in America, so this will go nowhere and it's that's probably on purpose to keep gun regulations a wedge issue.
It’s how affective a century plus of paranoia propaganda by the NRA has been.
Well for one assault weapon isnt a proper term, its like the term muscle car. Ya kinda get what someone means by it but it is not a solid enough term to be used for anything practical.
If a news article asks a yes/no question…
Obligatory: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headlines