jeffwBiden says it’s ‘time to outlaw’ AR-15 after Trump assassination attempt
KevonLooneyBiden is doing this to drive a wedge into Republicans. The gun nuts and the ones that don’t care about guns will have differing opinions because now gun violence affects them directly. It’s really smart.
Biden looks presidential. Trump has three choices:
Come out against AR-15s, for obvious reasons. This makes gun nuts less likely to vote for him.
Come out in favor of AR-15s. He looks insane to Republicans who don’t care about guns.
Trump ignores the issue or waffles and looks unpresidential.
Number 3 is most likely. Of course the correct answer is number 4: propose a competing policy that is nuanced. But that’s impossible for trump.
How many Republicans don’t care about guns?
The ones that are republicans for tax purposes.
Is that enough to matter? And is this issue enough for them to change their vote, given the tax stuff? All the other shit Trump does certainly doesn’t matter.
The richest places in America are pretty solidly blue. A lot of rich people like good public schools and colleges, clean water, etc. and understand that taxes and charity are how those things are paid for.
Other rich people like gated communities and stopped reading books^1^ when someone stopped assigning them. They’re the Republican rich people.
^Some will read a book about war or some shitty airport bookstore thing that’s 80% out-of-context quotes about how to be a leader.^
I wonder how many of those hedge fund billionaires down on Wall Street are Democrats. I doubt that it’s many of them.
I don’t have any desire to defend hedge fund or VC billionaires so I’ll concede the point. There’s a reason San Francisco has NIMBY policies and New York City can’t elect mayors for shit.
Yeah, because the people who own all of the businesses and real estate constantly battle those who work at the businesses and live in all that real estate, which just go a to show what a fucked up and unbalanced role money plays in our democracy.