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If I was talking about the average person, I'd probably agree. She is a politician, though. She is talking from a life experience that already doesn't apply to almost any voter, from a relationship with politics and policing in the US that does not apply to almost any voter, to a relationship with the GOP and her own party that does not apply to almost any voter. I don't think she has a luxury of positioning herself as the everyman, any more than George W. Bush had the position to assume a faux-everyman stance as the 'president you'd have a beer with' given his silver spoon upbringing. (And please don't misunderstand, I cite him only for the relevance of assumed personas not aligning with reality. I'm not implying any equality between those two people beyond that.)

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I don't think we did, no. I believe her when she says she found the prevalence of those raised hands to be chilling. At the same time, I think her position might be that she personally want to go farther than that, but she can't without it being political suicide - as it was in 2019, when she supported measures that the GOP has willfully and maliciously portrayed as government gun confiscation. For all the flaws I find in her campaign and politics, learning from her past mistakes isn't one of them.

I am saying however that if we let the GOP poison the well on yet further firearm reform, as we have in the past, we won't get an assault weapon ban in the first place, let alone all the other crucial reforms required to stop those hands going up at all those college events which troubled her so deeply. And I believe her rhetoric does that, sacrifices that ground, in order to ensure that she is elected over Trump.

JustaSandwich posted...

Ask a random person on the street in almost any state if they should be allowed to defend their homes from an intruder and they'll most likely say yes.

I'm aware. That's also part of the problem, though.