• flossdaily@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Bullshit. Democrats would be happy to try ANYTHING to solve this issue.

    Republicans have blocked every avenue.

    Do not both-sides this extremely one-sided issue.

    • Jeremy [Iowa]@midwest.social
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      1 year ago

      Bullshit. Democrats would be happy to try ANYTHING to solve this issue.

      And yet they’ve pushed literally nothing but various restrictions and bans focusing on firearms rather than attempting to address underlying root issues.

      Do not both-sides this extremely one-sided issue.

      Don’t pretend a failing of both parties is somehow only a failing of one.

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      1 year ago

      Democrats would be happy to try ANYTHING to solve this issue.

      Have you considered that they actually don’t give a fuck?

      Federal prosecutors nationwide, between 2004 and 2015, charged an average of 32 people a year with knowing they were forbidden from owning a gun but still trying to sneak past a background check, according to a report by the Office of Inspector General released Sept. 28.

      The inspector general found “no significant” change in the number of prosecutions for lying on the background checks since Sandy Hook.

      https://www.beaumontenterprise.com/hardincountynews/article/Firearm-background-check-liars-escape-charges-9957512.php

      Law Enforcement: Few Individuals Denied Firearms Purchases Are Prosecuted and ATF Should Assess Use of Warning Notices in Lieu of Prosecutions

      https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-18-440

      • Jeremy [Iowa]@midwest.social
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        1 year ago

        As another poster highlighted, blue team doesn’t want to kill the golden goose.

        As things stand, they have a perpetual wedge issue to capitalize on, they have no obligation to actually put up as voters are too willfully ignorant to actually hold them accountable, and they get to profit off blue-aligned media every time they sensationalize such a thing, all while not actually having to address the pesky class/inequality issues they depend on.

        They have absolutely no incentive to change status quo.

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          1 year ago

          As another poster highlighted, blue team doesn’t want to kill the golden goose.

          That is a possibility.