If you're in the minority you can only win by making alliances. To be an ally means you have to go show up for people you want to ally with.
What's normally called the 'left' is a coalition between corporate funded moderates and grassroots liberal and left movements.
All gun-control initiatives come out of the corporate funded moderate side of the house.
There have been zero grassroots driven gun control efforts with any staying power.
The grassroots movements that do have staying power, that are self-funded or getting money from small foundations AFTER they are launched have been, lately, the various African-American led movements for police accountability, the immigrant led movements against deportations and the holding centers for undocumented workers, the fast-food workers movements. All of these movements have elements that would sit down to talk with pro 2A advocates if the 2A advocates could control their impulses to be racist d--ks.
What's normally called the 'left' is a coalition between corporate funded moderates and grassroots liberal and left movements.
All gun-control initiatives come out of the corporate funded moderate side of the house.
There have been zero grassroots driven gun control efforts with any staying power.
The grassroots movements that do have staying power, that are self-funded or getting money from small foundations AFTER they are launched have been, lately, the various African-American led movements for police accountability, the immigrant led movements against deportations and the holding centers for undocumented workers, the fast-food workers movements. All of these movements have elements that would sit down to talk with pro 2A advocates if the 2A advocates could control their impulses to be racist d--ks.