What gun regulations can conservatives and liberals agree on?
What gun regulations can conservatives and liberals agree on? The answer depends on which conservatives you are talking about.Liberals tend to feel comfortable with a broader range of common sense gun safety regulations and most conservatives do, in the broadest sense. However, there are two things liberals want and that 92% off all Americans want — universal background checks before you can purchase a gun, and closing the gun show loophole that allows anyone to buy guns without having to go through any regulation. If 92% of all Americans support these two ideas, the means the vast majority of conservative Americans must also support them. Liberals and conservatives agree on this safety limitation to gun ownership.Now, if you take conservative politicians, they won’t even allow discussion of these two points. Why? Because they fear the backlash of NRA supporters? No, there are fewer than 1 million NRA members, so Republican politicians can’t fear NRA members more than the millions of conservative non-members who support common sense safety regulations regarding gun ownership.So why do conservative politicians stop any action on gun control, even common sense ones? The answer is simple, the NRA gives them millions of dollars in donations and is willing to run millions of dollars in political ads to defeat anyone who doesn’t tow the line.If you’re a conservative American who believes in universal background checks and closing the gun show loophole, then you need to contact your representatives at both state and federal levels. Until they fear you, more than they love the money from the NRA and the gun lobby, they will never allow debate on what you believe in.
Is Dylan Roof a left-wing liberal?
http://louderwithcrowder.com/myths-debunked-top-5-reasons-dylan-roof-was-actually-a-liberal-activist/ There is a picture of him burning the American flag. I think that reason alone proves he's a far left extremist, yet alone all the other reasons. Liberals are the people that think it's ok to burn and step on the flag, there's no such thing as a conservative that burns the American flag, they hate that. MYTH about Dylan Roof being a "NRA Tea Party right-wing nut" is debunked.
Why do most intellectuals tend to lean towards liberalism?
If by "intellectuals," you mean "very intelligent people," then yes, they orient toward political liberalism (U.S. sense) very strongly, and the smarter they are, the stronger they orient toward liberalism. I wrote a related paper recently (Shortened ScienceDirect URL Redirection). The main reasons are that very intelligent people 1) possess an external control ideology, 2) are more empathetic toward people they do not know, and 3) are more trusting toward people they do not know. Several more comments relating to some of the other answers in this thread (I say more about each in the paper): 1) It's true that very intelligent people are also more likely to be irreligious, but the relationship between liberalism and irreligiosity is largely correlative, rather than causal (both are effects of higher intelligence). 2) Very smart people in general orient toward liberalism, regardless of whether or not they are in academia. For example, Pulitzer Prize winners, Putnam winners, Intel Science Search winners, and Scripps National Spelling Bee winners are all unlikely to be affiliated with academia but all overwhelmingly liberal. 3) Libertarians tend to have the highest average IQ, not because libertarianism is most attractive to the most intelligent people, but because libertarianism basically has much fewer adherents of low intelligence to bring down the average. This is true for any ideology or party that is non-mainstream. People of low intelligence don't follow politics closely enough to be Libertarians.