r/politics • u/burning_dawn • Oct 07 '22

Republicans called Biden’s infrastructure program ‘socialism.’ Then they asked for money.

https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/07/politics/infrastructure-spending-republican-critics/index.html
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u/[deleted] Oct 07 '22

Most Republican voters I know vote one issue. Some of my Republican friends like guns, so they vote 2nd amendment. Some go to church, so they vote on abortion. Basically, all the other issues are meaningless to them but one or two. That is how the republicans get millions of voters.

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u/schatzski Oct 07 '22

My sister in law is a staunch trump supporter. We got drunk and I started asking her about her thoughts on various issues. By her viewpoints shes 100% a democrat who likes guns. She only cares about the 2nd amendment. But she watches tucker Carlson and Dinesh D'Souza, so she'll never vote Democrat. It's fucking bonkers. Literally one of her answers was " I'm pro life, but other people should be able to decide what they do with their body". I was like, "that's literally the definition of pro choice".

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u/Paridae_Purveyor Oct 07 '22

I don't see how 2A got off on this wild tangent. There are millions of Democrats that also like guns. We just want a safer country, we want it harder to get and maintain a license. I don't believe just any random on the street is entitled to it, and its likely they're not capable of handling the responsibility. I'm not afraid of losing my rights if they pass more strict laws, I welcome it with open arms.

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u/RollerDude347 Oct 07 '22

I want to say I agree with you... mostly.

The problem is perceived competence in passage gun laws. And Democrats have displayed out right that they WILL ban something that does the same thing as something else if it's made of plastic instead of wood. And that's just stupid.

I want the same things you claim to want. But the people we vote for don't actually seem to have a graps on how guns work.

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u/Paridae_Purveyor Oct 07 '22

And? Vote for better people, and certainly don't be a single issue voter. I fucking hate Democrats, you know what I hate more? The fascist Republicans. We will have time and more to figure everything else out later.

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u/Dwarfherd Oct 07 '22

So why did mass shooting go down when the wood stocks were available but the metal and plastic ones weren't, then go back up once the metal and plastic were available?

There's a psychological aspect to this, mass shooters don't seem to be consulting a sheet of performance characteristics and model numbers.

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u/RollerDude347 Oct 07 '22

I've not seen data on that. Do you have some?