Message from @Beemann
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Yeah. It's histroically high.
People not voting for dems or voting third party against a solid repub bloc has the same result
Really what is happening is that the political divide is becoming a male/female divide.
nah
With millennial women being the tightest block. As tight as blacks now.
authoritarian and libertarian
>Middle class women have been driving the resistance.
Really makes you ponder women's suffrage
I'd argue it was #MeToo.
They've basically re-written alot of the Democratic party at this point.
Didn't the political divide map closest to guns?
Issue-wise, yes.
It's also heavily decided by population density.
that would be authoritarian vs libertarian
not left/right
many gun owning liberals
Guns are a true urban/rural issue.
Also didn't white wahmen get Trump elected?
In part.
many reasons trump got elected
Not in total.
2016 = Hilary beat herself
2020 = people vote for trump
Mostly voter turnout was low, which favors Republicans.
So glad Harmful is back
Rural people (liberals included) tend to see guns as key tools for fending against animals and potential attackers.
Urbanites (conservatives included) see guns purely as a weapon for crime.
Which is interesting because there are more human attackers in the cities
A theory I like is that rural living tends to make people self-reliant. Urban living makes people dependent.
people in citys have a stronger force acting on them than self preservation
media
So when you're at risk of being attacked, rural people will tend to ask what they might do to protect themselves. Urbanites will tend to ask what it would take to get someone else to take care of them.
besides the government doesent get to spend your tax money on defending you if you can defend yourself
The problem there is that the latter isn't really feasible
Government generally doesn't defend you. Government cleans up the mess afterwards.
Feasibility doesn't matter. Appearance of Feasibility does.
The government doesn't defend you in the present tense. The government tries to disincentivize attacking you and tries to punish your attacker
See but that's where we get into the cognitive dissonance
The argument makes some sense. IF the attacker cannot get a gun THEN they cannot attack you with said gun.
Wherein the left hates both cops and self defense
Or at least the most efficient method of self defense