Splinter: No One Except Bernie 2020

You guys do know that Michael Bloomberg singlehandedly outspent the entire “gun lobby” in 2016, right?

No matter how rich we are, if we add enough poor people to our society, free health care and college becomes impossible. What Bernie Sanders is proposing is that we go from being a rich country with no free health care or college to a rich country with those things. Allowing an unlimited number of poor people into the…

That’s not an answer.  Show your work and then explain how Bernie could make the same argument and win an election.  

How does Medicare for All work when every poor person in the hemisphere can enter the US? Can we afford health care for All Americans, plus everyone who wants health care and can reach the U.S? 

The Founding Fathers also intended guns to be held for use against an oppressive state, not for self-defense.  So the opposite of your argument is closer to the truth, that we should be allowed military-grade weapons.

Thank you for a reasonable comment, and I mostly agree with you. Gun violence happens, and happens more in places like America where guns are allowed. But is the issue gun violence or violence in general? Violence doesn’t go away with the tool. The tool changes.

If I beat you with a baseball bat, that’s an assault weapon. It’s a meaningless term invented to frighten children.

Well a gun can also be used as a deterrence against violence, by raising the risk for the other person involved and making them back down, or discouraging those who would otherwise do violence from doing so.

I think that’s ridiculous. We’ve all already decided whether we support Trump or not, even if some don’t publicly admit it. This isn’t going to change anyone’s mind, if anything, it just further reinforces his base, and gives Russia and Putin the confidence to even further interfere in the 2020 elections.

Magazines are untrackable and don’t need ID to purchase, and since the dealer did everything they were supposed to, there’s no reason that they should be sued for selling the gun. The Air Force suit is more important in this case.

It works for me. A black woman that works for every penny I have to spend, has no past or future inheritance, and needs to continue to build skills to advance.

LOL at the author’s “Who is this even for?”

Because it isn’t outright punishing the rich.

There’s plenty of room for one pistol in the gun cabinet

Yeah, that’s the thing with this. I can’t really accept that this is a black and white issue, because I personally know a lot of responsible gun owners. Are there shitty gun owners who will do stupid, shitty things with guns? Sure. But there are also people who treat them in a safe manner for whatever use they may…

I really hope that someday, whether it’s by a reporter during this current shitshow, a judge as she’s being sentenced to prison, or by a talk show host years from now when she’s plugging her book on her experience in this administration, someone looks her directly in the eye and, in a very loud and clear voice for…

Thats harsh. Try to see these things from her points of view, man.

4. Most importantly. How can we win back the states we lost to Trump? Florida, Wisconsin, etc.