• be_excellent_to_each_other@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    If your argument is we need to address mental health, I'm not going to argue with you there. But guess which party in the US is described by all four of these bullet points:

    • gutted our mental health infrastructure

    • Consistently votes down legislation to fund investment in mental health infrastructure

    • Consistently opposes any measures to implement Red Flag laws or other attempts to make it harder to own guns

    • Consistently deflects to mental health being the problem whenever we have more people die

    While they are refusing to budge on either of the two middle bullet points, people are just dying.

    So I have little sympathy for folks who defend guns with the premise that mental health is the real problem. Fine, let's say it is, doesn't matter because you are preventing us as a nation from addressing either of those issues.

    • Dark Arc@social.packetloss.gg
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      1 year ago

      I have voted a pretty much straight blue ticket in all elections since 2016. I also have friends that guns are a very important issue for though, and I don't think the Democratic party is getting anywhere being the "party out to get the guns."