This is how the democratic party platform starts out on guns. After some other quotes including these that are often times called for by pro-gun members of this group "We can focus on effective enforcement of existing laws, especially strengthening our background check system, and we can work together to enact commonsense improvements..." the oxymoron finish of "...reinstating the assault weapons ban and closing the gun show loophole—so that guns do not fall into the hands of those irresponsible, law-breaking few."
The numbers show that the AWB is only going to impact a nearly statistically insignificant numbers of gun crimes and thus not commonsense in many of our opinions as a good cost-benefit equation to undercut the Constitution yet again. The platform acknowledges "law-breaking few". Why do YOU push for gun confiscation which violates the Constitution and goes against the statement of scale in the Democratic platform? You should be careful using the term 'gruesome' as your disregard of not only the Constitution, but the Democratic party platform is much closer to gruesome than you'll ever be able to recognize.
The repubs are bat-crap crazy about not only gun control, but virtually every other issue on the planet. If you can't see the difference between working out the details of how to accomplish the majority of the Democratic party platform on guns and the bat-crap crazies, I not only question your judgement on gun control, but how to win elections and per your goals amend the Constitution.
When you spend too much time on a high horse your brain may entropy a bit. Come down with us unwashed masses, shoot a few clay pigeons, and lets work out meaningful and Constitutional solutions to the "irresponsible, law-breaking few".
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