Bernie Sanders Parrots the NRA

[JahFocus CS]

Being anti-gun is not a Leftist position. Supporting further restrictions on the right to bear arms does not make someone further to the Left on the issue than someone else (I noticed this being implied in one of the articles posted earlier).

 

[Tate]

Now that the gun fight is headed towards good ol' Bern, its a "marginal issue"?
Or let me guess it was always a "marginal issue"?

When's the last time a candidate won an election in large part due to support for gun control?

Issue doesn't even rank among democrat or republican voters here: Republicans and Democrats divided on important issues for a presidential nominee

Being anti-gun is not a Leftist position. Supporting further restrictions on the right to bear arms does not make someone further to the Left on the issue than someone else (I noticed this being implied in one of the articles posted earlier).

This

 

[Jello Biafra]

Guns are such a marginal issue on the left. This is the equivalent of Scott Walker making his grand appeal to the presidency on union busting.

There's a reason despite a relatively consistent majority of voters supporting enhanced gun control it never passes, enthusiasm gap. There's not enough real grassroots support for gun control to battle the apathy that the majority of voters feel towards it.

And I fail to see the big gap between sanders and the democratic mainstream on guns. He wants and has voted for the only gun control measures that have any hope of ever passing even a democrat controlled congress. Where's the space to the "left" of increased background checks, closing the gun-show loophole, and a reinstated assault weapons ban, but short of physically taking guns away?

I don't see how you can say it is a marginal issue right now. With the number of high profile mass shootings that have happened and you even had Pres. Obama getting heated on live TV over it...guns and gun violence has been propelled to the top of the national list of issues in this Presidential election.

 

[Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson]

There really is no way to legislatively prevent these mass shootings... unless you are suggesting pissing on the 4th amendment and sending storm troopers door to door to collect the firearms.

 

[Tate]

I don't see how you can say it is a marginal issue right now. With the number of high profile mass shootings that have happened and you even had Pres. Obama getting heated on live TV over it...guns and gun violence has been propelled to the top of the national list of issues in this Presidential election.

At this exact moment it's a big issue. But it won't be in a couple months. There really just isn't the passion on the left or center to vote on gun control. Who suffered in 2014 because they didn't support Toomey-Manchin?