We must restore the 2nd Amendment to its original intent

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26. Yeah, because making gun control the party platform has just worked out so well for us.

The Democratic Party has been embracing as its signature gun-control effort a ban on "assault weapons" for 30 years. For 30 years, Democrats have, by and large, been forced to go on TV in a variety of venues and say reality-devoid statements that a child can see through. It's because national Democrats seized on an alternative crime-control platform for the 1992 election and the dumb and ineffective brain storm of a couple of California state legislators was part of it.

And while a certain percentage of the country hates private gun ownership and private gun owners and will support any gun-control measure regardless of ineffectiveness or stupidity as long as it pisses off Republicans, a much larger percentage of the country either doesn't care or sees Democratic party saying and doing stupid shit that ruins our credibility!

People that own guns know about guns. Shocker, I know. And when Democrats say stupid things like "pistol grips turn rifles into death machines that must be banned!!!!", our credibility goes out the window. "Well, gee, if Democrats are wrong about this physical thing that I own, how can they be right on abstract issues like the economy?"

We're in this boat because Dolt45 won the electoral college. He won the electoral college because in a handful of states, his voters were more motivated to vote than Hillary Clinton's. His voters were worried about HRC passing new gun-control laws AS STATED IN THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY PLATFORM.

Yeah, there were other reasons she lost; if Comey had kept his mouth shut, or Hillary had scheduled a few rallies in the Great Lakes region, she probably would have won. Barely. Against an orange clown of a human being that is obviously corrupt, self-centered, greedy, and ignorant.

But this issue, which is a fundamentally flawed and ineffective idea, affects not only the presidential races, but also Federal and State elections. We lost the House in 1994, and have been going back-and-forth ever since. We've been under-performing in Senate races. Ohio went from a tossup to something that's reliable Republican. We lost the presidency because of 537 votes in Florida; if 269 out of MILLIONS of voters had voted for Gore instead, he would have won, and Dubya's SCOTUS picks would have been liberals instead of conservatives. 26 states have majority-Republican House delegations, which may be a BIG FUCKING DEAL in 2024 as Republicans try to steal the presidency for the Fat Donnie.

Everybody seems to agree that the Democrats have lost the rural states for the foreseeable future but nobody seems to be making the connection between the party plank and this issue. Democrats have a fiction-based signature gun-control plan, they've been wedded to it for so long they refuse to even consider divorcing it, and they keep losing ground in rural parts of the country.

Banning assault weapons is not a winning strategy. It hasn't worked, it isn't working, and it will never work. It can't work, for a variety of reasons. It has always been a political stunt designed to garner votes by bringing new ideas to the table, and it maybe worked once, for Bill Clinton in 1992.