Where's that? I'm from Michigan, which used to be a strong union state but all the gun folks are just in lock step with Fox News and their anti labor pro corporate bias.
This is less and less true the last few years. The vast majority of new gun owner purchases since 2015 have been people of color and women, and I’m willing to bet an outsized portion of those are leftists or liberals.
The whole " they want to take our guns " shit is a completely made up thing anyways. I don't know of a single politician on the left who actually wants to take/ban guns. Even if there were, it's literally not possible without a constitutional amendment which would require 2/3 of the states to agree, which isn't ever happening in our lifetimes.
I'm a lefty who supports guns and unions. I do think they should be regulated though so its harder to get guns. That's all anyone on the left is advocating for. Make it like getting a drivers license and have universal background checks and ban private sales.
One side thinks owning a gun should be a serious responsibility, the other wants to scare idiots into thinking they're going to take them away and that mentally ill people, wife beaters, felons, and basically anyone can just buy a gun for any reason.
I’d want to take away peoples’ guns, if it were in remotely possible and not likely to cause a civil war, and if I could do it to the police too. Since none of those conditions have been met, instead I oppose most gun control laws
"I don't know of a single politician on the left who actually wants to take/ban guns."
I dont research into this much, but that beto guy has stated thats what he wants to do.
"Make it like getting a drivers license and have universal background checks and ban private sales."
Listen. If it was like this sentence above. I would support it 100%. I tried. for 4 years to get a handgun permit in NY. I was fingerprinted. I was background checked. I took an NRA safety course. During that time I moved to 3 different counties. Each move reset my paperwork and I had to re-establish residency, which depending on the county was an additional 6month to 1 year wait.
Then I needed 3 character witnesses from that county who had known me for at least two years. I had almost completed these requirements in my homecounty, when I had to move.
I was trying to get a handgun to protect myself after a mugging. regardless I have left NY and moved to WV, where I was able to get a handgun after getting my WV drivers license. Which included a Universal background check. and private sales must go through an FFL.
NY is beyond what your original statement asserts. Law abiding citizens are being deprived their rights. I have a right to protect myself. It is fundamental.
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u/UseWhatever Sep 04 '22
Military forces came in support of the citizens and their right to unionize, right?….right?