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Gun control is kind of a stupid issue for Democrats at the moment for one reason: the only "sensible" gun control is the kind that does take guns away from people. If you want people to stop killing each other, and cops to stop murdering people in the street, handgun ownership needs to have a sea change. Scary assault weapons and giant magazines and silencers don't matter. An 8-round or 10-round magazine on a stock Glock pistol is more than enough. Plenty of people have reasons to own guns, but "because I want one" needs to be not good enough. And that kind of gun control is squarely killed by the second amendment. Until there is a serious grassroots nationwide movement to actually and literally repeal the second amendment, there is no point in running on "trying to regulate guns more than they already are."
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Trabisnikof posted:I'm pretty sure the President can't do it. The president could pardon/commute a few hundred thousand prisoners, that would free up some space.
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farraday posted:https://www.bop.gov/about/statistics/population_statistics.jsp Okay, fine, I was spitballing the actual number when responding to a one sentence post. But federal prisons are still 40% over capacity, so getting a full 1/3 (~65,000) of federal prisoners out of jail would still leave prisons pretty much at maximum capacity.
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