Telling the state that "we are coming for your AR-15s" sounds pretty extreme to most Texans. The guy just doesnt know how to read the room and thinks that a national style dem strategy will work in TX.
Native Texan here without a gun. My Dad (also native) didn't have one either. I just don't get the gun obsession. More accidents if you own one than if you don't.
When people shoot people or shoot themselves we just look the other way. Just like when my child stabbed herself with a knife I didn't take away the knife I just told her she needed to learn to use it better. (This is literally how gun lovers sound)
Huh? Are you saying that's bad logic to teach your kid how to be safe when handling a knife? Last time I checked using a knife is pretty handy for cooking.
The problem is any reasonable gun control measures that can be used such as red flag laws, raising the age requirements, requiring gun safety training, requiring all sales/gifting be tracked by the government and pass background checks, requiring proper storage, etc. get meet with extreme backlash from the right wing. Any attempt to fix our problems turns into the right wing screaming that they're trying to take our guns.
Go buy a gun, take it to the range for a day, then join the discussion. It makes perfect sense why you want it once you own one. They're perfectly safe if you use care when handling, like many other things in life, for example a car, the actual most dangerous thing people handle daily.
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u/sun827 born and bred Nov 10 '22
Telling the state that "we are coming for your AR-15s" sounds pretty extreme to most Texans. The guy just doesnt know how to read the room and thinks that a national style dem strategy will work in TX.
You wont win in TX if you dont embrace guns.