Democratic National Committee vice chair David Hogg’s plan to spend $20 million to primary older Democratic incumbents in Congress has sparked intense anger from some lawmakers.

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    The USA is alone in the entire world in that it has a mass shooting almost every day of every year, and yet when faced with modest controla you’re like, “if I, a citizen with no gun dealer licensr can’t just sell whatever guns whenever I like to neighbours and friends then any changes are unacceptable”.

    You say pro gun-control candidates will cost the Democrats votes, well I think I just found a single issue voter.

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      You say pro gun-control candidates will cost the Democrats votes, well I think I just found a single issue voter.

      It’s not my vote you need to worry about. I voted for Harris, Biden, Clinton, Obama, Obama, Kerry, Gore, and more Democratic governors, legislators, judges, commissioners, and administrators than I feel like counting. Democrats didn’t, and won’t lose my vote over gun control.

      The votes you should be concerned about are the ones who aren’t here, arguing with you. The votes you should be concerned about are the ones that turned former bellwether swing states into reliably red states. Ohio for example. A state that voted for the eventual winner in 36 of the last 41 elections, going back all the way to the civil war. A state that is now considered reliably red.

      Democrats did nothing to prepare for the kids and grandkids of the first generation of concealed carriers across the country. Kids who now have their own carry licenses. The Democrats never bothered to consider the effects of 30 million new gun licensees in 42 of the 50 states, nor their families and friends. Never bothered to consider that voter opinion on guns might have shifted since the civil rights era.

      Gun control is one of the more prominent issues of dissatisfaction with the Democratic party.