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Inevitable: “We Need to Look at Handguns”
When Democrats talks about a living breathing constitution, they are really talking about rewriting the Constitution to fit their fashionable PC ideology—whatever that might be on in any particular voting cycle.
And when Democrats talk about gun control, they are really talking about the banning and confiscation of all weapons purchased by law-abiding citizens. Like totalitarians everywhere, Democrats want to centralize power and weapons in the hands of the state. The fact that they are also centralizing power in the murderous paws of millions of various criminal enterprises is, to liberals, a big yawn. In fact, the criminals reliably vote the Democrat ticket because they know who best represents their interests. So, in a very real sense, the Democrats are pandering to their base.
Seraphic Secret also finds is fascinating that the very people who wail and gnash their teeth about ”gun violence” are the very people who oppose capital punishment for the very barbarians who gleefully slaughter innocent citizens with weapons obtained illegally.
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