Manchin focused on his personal opinion about importance of 2A minority rights not held by majority of Americans & minority rights of smaller population states many GOP & rights of minorities in his state who hold views like his 2A views contrary to majority in his state let...
...alone majority of Americans’ views in every state contrary to his own like approval of universal background checks & red flag laws has a right to go “scorched earth” along with McConnell & GOP to protect his minority views but is he willing to kill voting rights to protect 2A?
Kill voting rights (let GOP kill them with 253 bills and counting bills in individual states) just to protect a 2A“slippery slope” that does not exist. Background checks are not guns any more than large capacity magazines are guns. 50 or 100 round clips convenient for those ...
... too lazy to reload but also convenient way way way too convenient for mass murderers like Los Vegas shooter who killed 50 and wounded 500 not just with multiple weapons with high capacity but with bump stocks. Conscience HAS to win out over convenience. Manchin’s personal ...
... opinions may be lauded by some (maybe many) as somehow “principled” but his challenge is to recognize the wrongness of going too far to protect 2A & especially states’ rights when so many GOP states are taking away voting rights a real “slippery slope” when it’s easier to...
... get a gun than it is to vote. Background checks where allowed have stopped thousands of criminals from getting guns. Voter suppression efforts have prevented hundreds of thousands from voting without catching hand full of voter frauds out of hundreds of millions so rare as...
... to be almost non - existent.
How many voters have had their votes taken away? Many.
How many ( law abiding ) gun owners have had or ever will have their guns taken away! Zero. At least I know if none.
Kemp who just signed voter suppression bill disallowed hundreds of ...
How many voters have had their votes taken away? Many.
How many ( law abiding ) gun owners have had or ever will have their guns taken away! Zero. At least I know if none.
Kemp who just signed voter suppression bill disallowed hundreds of ...
... thousands of votes to beat Stacy Abrams by 50,000 votes. Kemp & GA GOP lost both Senate seats despite massive voter suppression efforts & 8 hour lines to to vote. Manchin not supporting whatever it takes to pass voting rights bill in Senate doesn’t hold water. Is Manchin ...
... working against his own constituents if he doesn’t work to pass Biden agenda! Yes, when it comes to protecting voter rights now under attack. If someone stands in line 8 hours in WV & is given water it’s not a felony as it is in GA - yet. But Manchin’s on a “slippery slope.”
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