Time to break free of traditional political ideological labeling and divisions. Time to abandon old, divisive sociopolitical labels like “liberal” and “conservative”.

A new political party based on a vastly, commonly held virtures lends itself to embrace over 66% of Americans, and it clearly embraces progressive principled thinking. In the most ideal American sense of unity, a political party should not be able to be defined or placed as “to the left” or “to the right” of where the Democratic or Republican parties currently are. Just let it exist organically based on present-day principled thinking. The American Progressive Majority.


Originally Posted By u/Atlanticbboy At 2025-03-23 04:38:18 AM | Source


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    These numbers are bullshit.

    Who in their right mind actually believes Americans prefer gun control to: abortion care, legal weed, gay marriage, higher minimum wage, and home ownership.

    Like regardless of what you or I want for America, that’s an actual load of shit. Too many people love their guns, there’s literally more guns than people here.

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          gun control ≠ gun law reform. My MAGA grandpa can see that there needs to be some restriction because so man kids are dead.

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            Why should I believe any of these statistics when the percentage of gun owners is verifiably wrong.

            I’m just not gonna trust any of the numbers in this post.

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              Honestly that’s the one number that is the most difficult to confirm. The NRA lobbied congress to ban the ability to perform studies to gather any meaningful statistics on guns within the USA. No federal agency can perform the studies, nor can they fund those studies, nor can they acknowledge third party studies when making policy. So there’s no good longitudinal studies on things like suicide rates because that would harm the fucking gun manufacturers.

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              Damn y’all are lazy AF. It took me 20 seconds to google this article from 2020:

              Thirty-two percent of U.S. adults say they personally own a gun, while a larger percentage, 44%, report living in a gun household.

              So it seems like the graphic is slightly off 72% vs 68% for 2020.

              But the article also has a chart with historic values betwen 27% and 34% from 2007 - 2020. So 73%-66% seems like a fairly accurate range.

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              Verify it then? I don’t know what specific study they’re referencing because the citation is too broad, but that 2017 link is 69% don’t currently own, 72 seems within that margin

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          I’m one of those people with 50+ guns. I love guns. I used to sell guns.

          I still think we do need some new firearm legislation. Specifically, we need universal background checks because as long as a secondary market without background checks exists, straw purchases are effectively legal.

          My personal policy on selling guns to someone privately is they have to have a concealed carry license, because that license means they’ve passed the background check that I can’t perform.

          It also will help people who accidentally commit felonies. How many people reading this thread knew that a dad giving his gun to his son is fine most of the time, but a federal felony if they live in different states and the gun is a pistol, even if the gun is legal in both states?

          On the flip side, supressors should be legal with no restrictions. It’s pants-on-head stupid that they aren’t. They make guns less harmful.

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          Nearly half of all American households have a gun. 44% to be exact.

          This is a phony and misleading quote. The article says 44% of people live in a house with a gun but the number of people who own guns is lower. Here’s the actual quote:

          Thirty-two percent of U.S. adults say they personally own a gun, while a larger percentage, 44%, report living in a gun household.

          I think, when people overtly lie about this kind of stuff, it’s not worth arguing anymore.

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            I literally said 44% of american households own a gun, which is exactly in line with the qoute.

            At no time did I imply that meant 44% of all American adults own guns. It wouldn’t even make sense to, considering the comment above links to information to the contrary.

            If that’s what you got from what I said, then you need to check your reading comprehension.

            That being said, the 44% of those people, regardless of whether or not they own the guns, are less likely to want more gun control.

            Not sure what more you want.

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      Too many people love their guns, there’s literally more guns than people here.

      Loving their guns and wanting better gun control laws aren’t two opposite things you know. They can easily go hand in hand. See Canada to the north. Lots of guns, and better gun control laws.