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How Democrats plan to use gun control to beat Trump
The Politico ^ | August 12, 2019 | David Siders

Posted on 08/12/2019 1:11:03 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

DES MOINES — A Democratic presidential field that has struggled to precisely define its general election indictment of Donald Trump appears finally to have found it.

In the wake of mass shootings in Ohio and Texas — the latter of which was tied to a suspect whose anti-immigrant sentiments led to the killing of 22 people — candidates are road-testing a withering argument that draws a direct line between gun violence and the president’s racist rhetoric.

“We are living with a toxic brew of two different things, each of which is claiming lives and each of which represents a national security emergency in this country,” South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg said at a forum on gun violence here on Saturday. “One of them is the ready availability of guns and the way they can fall into the wrong hands. The other is the rise of hate. And when they come into contact with each other, it is deadly.”

The previous day, Julián Castro, the former mayor of San Antonio and Obama Cabinet secretary, made an equally explicit connection before arriving at the Iowa State Fair: “Disarm Hate: Combating White Nationalism and Gun Violence,” he titled the gun control proposal he released to coincide with the weekend of campaigning.

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1 posted on 08/12/2019 1:11:03 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Loser issue, if they ignore “healthcare” as their issue they are toast. And if Trump makes world events front and center they are toast.


2 posted on 08/12/2019 1:13:22 PM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The only way Democrtas beat Trump with gun control is if they dupe him into signing red flag and/or universal background check legislation.


3 posted on 08/12/2019 1:14:21 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here Of Citizen Parents_Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Disarm Hate: Combating White Nationalism and Gun Violence

How many names did I just get called?

4 posted on 08/12/2019 1:16:48 PM PDT by AndyJackson
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Same as Bush41.
The Left got him to sign the AWB and the tax increase.
After that he was toast.
People told him he was making a huge mistake.
The Bush Family only listens to Rove and the Bush Family.


5 posted on 08/12/2019 1:20:31 PM PDT by Zathras
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To: Lurkinanloomin

yes, that will absolutely doom him


6 posted on 08/12/2019 1:21:15 PM PDT by Jeff Vader
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To: Zathras

Bush League Republicans are Democrats in R jerseys.

Flimsey Grahamnesty is backing red flag laws and he is STILL determined to get amnesty for illegal aliens.


7 posted on 08/12/2019 1:25:11 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here Of Citizen Parents_Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Dumb issue....Plenty of Dem gun owners.....and they ain’t gonna give them up.


8 posted on 08/12/2019 1:26:39 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

If this is truly part of their plan, expect to see several more “mass shootings” by deplorable types in the coming months.


9 posted on 08/12/2019 1:27:31 PM PDT by NEMDF
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Shootings by Deplorables hasn’t even started.


10 posted on 08/12/2019 1:38:06 PM PDT by wastoute (Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
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To: 1Old Pro

Yes, another losing “plank” of their platform.


11 posted on 08/12/2019 1:41:13 PM PDT by cld51860 (Volo pro veritas)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

He has to know.
I sent mail, I hope he get’s a whole lot of mail from patriots.


12 posted on 08/12/2019 1:52:28 PM PDT by right way right (May we remain sober over mere men, for God really is our only true hope.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

gun control v. Weapons Retention, who wins?


13 posted on 08/12/2019 1:53:14 PM PDT by john316 (JOSHUA 24:15 ...choose you this day whom ye will serve...)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Pundits, MSM and talking heads all frothing at the mouth for radical gun control, but I doubt a majority of normal citizens don’t.


14 posted on 08/12/2019 1:53:35 PM PDT by umgud
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To: Zathras

Right on the “read my lips...no new taxes” fumble by Bush but Clinton was the signer of the AWB in 1994.


15 posted on 08/12/2019 1:57:26 PM PDT by T-Bird45 (It feels like the seventies, and it shouldn't.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

What about Antifa hate? This will be on display yet again in an upcoming riot this Saturday in Portland, Oregon.

What about Black Lives Matter and their violent message against police officers?

Also, the punk shooter’s manifesto sounded like he wanted free stuff and he was angry at illegal aliens for receiving said free stuff....the shooter wanted more for himself.

Much of his screed sounded like an Antifa / environmentalist whacko manifesto.

But the media painted him as a “white supremacist,” which I seriously doubt.


16 posted on 08/12/2019 2:00:03 PM PDT by july4thfreedomfoundation (Ban liberals, NOT guns.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The latest in many “grasping at straws” efforts from the Party that is bankrupt of ideas.


17 posted on 08/12/2019 2:13:20 PM PDT by Huskrrrr
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

This is a great issue. The totalitarian socialists will lock up the voters of San Francisco, New York City, and every cemetery in the country. Other than that, it won’t play well with real Americans, but I think it’s still worth a shot.


18 posted on 08/12/2019 2:19:03 PM PDT by Pollster1 ("Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

the D’s will need to switch sides 100 percent copmletely on the 2d Amendment.....if they want it to help their campaign


19 posted on 08/12/2019 2:20:26 PM PDT by faithhopecharity ( “Politicians are not born; they are excreted.” Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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To: 1Old Pro

All they have to do is get him to go along with any
of their schemes and they will proceed to beat him
to death with it.


20 posted on 08/12/2019 2:23:17 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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