2026 Midterm Elections

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heelinhell said:
Are you suggesting that the 2nd Amendment as written by the founding fathers gives the people a Constitutional right to own assault weapons ?
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By assault rifle, you mean semi-auto rifle? Yes.

I didn't make this, nor do I endorse the hyperbolic wording, but the relevant details are still accurate:

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EDIT: If you're curious, the "AR" in AR-15 stands for ArmaLite Rifle, the company who developed the AR-15. It doesn't stand for "Assault Rifle".
 
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BlueSmoke said:
I suppose you lose political capital any time you pass something. So that's true. I'm just saying the business model has a weakness. Its evident by Democratic weak performance everywhere you look and over a long period of time. I could also argue the Republican business model is flawed as hell. But they have one key advantage. In the voter's mind, they are the party of "no". So the crossover voter is generally willing to go with them when they perceive they have two bad choices.

Business model may be the same thing as messaging. If what Biden got passed was great then it shouldn't be hard to message it.
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Your average inconsistent/swing voter only wants 3 things from the government...

- To have government address every significant issue facing society in the way that the voter would like it solved.
- To have government in no way, shape, or form restrict their personal liberties or actions.
- To have government keep taxes as low as possible for that voter, preferably lowering them from the current rate.

Pubs are certainly better at messaging to this kind of voter than Dems are.
 
SnoopRob said:
Your average inconsistent/swing voter only wants 3 things from the government...

- To have government address every significant issue facing society in the way that the voter would like it solved.
- To have government in no way, shape, or form restrict their personal liberties or actions.
- To have government keep taxes as low as possible for that voter, preferably lowering them from the current rate.

Pubs are certainly better at messaging to this kind of voter than Dems are.
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Based on #2 and #3, it would appear the Party of NO, would have the inside tract.
 
RockyMtnHoo said:
You tell me. You’re the one stating that banning new sales of them (already owned ones are grandfathered in) will cost Dems future elections in VA. But also saying most Americans (which I assume include Virginians) don’t know what they are.
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I consider a semi-automatic assault rifle to be rifle that will fire one bullet as quickly as you can pull trigger until the magazine is empty, without any other action by the user. Obvious flaw in this definition: The early models of M-16's would jam before the magazine would empty.

Side Note: Shortly after the M-16 was adopted and it's tendency to jam was widely reported, a team from Seymore Johnson AFB showed up at a Boy Scout camp I was attending that summer to demonstrate how great the M-16 was. After explaining what the M-16 was and showing us how it worked, the presenter, pulled out a 30 round curved magazine and told us to start counting as fast as we could when he started to fire and all 30 round would be fired before we got to 10. After about 5 or 6 rounds, the M-16 jammed. By the time I was in the Army the only magazine for a M-16 was a 20 round magazine and we were TOLD to never put more than 18 rounds in it.
 
ZZLPHeels said:
What is an “assault weapon” again? Most Americans would be unable to define it.
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All words in language have an origin in use by those who use the language.

I would argue that by the convention of the widely accepted use of the words "assault weapon" in main stream social settings, most people know what an assault weapon is.

It's just being semantic and obtuse to make the argument that an AR-15, or other "Assault Weapons" are simply rifles.
 
ZZLPHeels said:
What is an “assault weapon” again? Most Americans would be unable to define it.
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Definition of assault weapon

Under the Assault Weapons Ban of 1994, the definition of "semi-automatic assault weapon" ("SAW") (commonly shortened to "assault weapon") included specific semi-automatic firearm models by name and other semi-automatic firearms that possessed two or more from a set certain features:

Semi-automatic rifles able to accept detachable magazines and has two or more of the following:
Folding or telescoping stock
Pistol grip
Bayonet mount
Flash hider or threaded barrel designed to accommodate one
Grenade launcher
Semi-automatic pistols with detachable magazines and two or more of the following:
Magazine that attaches outside the pistol grip
Threaded barrel to attach barrel extender, flash suppressor, hand grip, or suppressor
Barrel shroud safety feature that prevents burns to the operator
A manufactured weight of 50 ounces (1.42kg) or more when the pistol is unloaded
A semi-automatic version of a fully automatic firearm
Semi-automatic shotguns with two or more of the following:
Folding or telescoping stock
Pistol grip
A fixed magazine capacity over 5 rounds
Detachable magazine
The law also categorically banned the following makes and models of semi-automatic firearms and any copies or duplicates of them, in any caliber:
Norinco, Mitchell, and Poly Technologies Avtomat Kalashnikovs (AKs) (all models)
Action Arms Israeli Military Industries Uzi and Galil
Beretta AR-70 (SC-70) Imports banned in 1989*
Colt AR-15
Fabrique National FN/FAL, FN-LAR, FNC
SWD (MAC type) M-10, M-11, M11/9, M12
Steyr AUG
INTRATEC TEC-9, TEC-DC9, TEC-22
Revolving cylinder shotguns such as (or similar to) the Strret Sweeper and Striker 12
 
The reason Polymarket doesn't have a line on the chances of MAGA operatives rigging and/or running interference on the midterms and again in 2028, because it's a lock.
 
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