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This is probably a bad idea, but I'll give it a whirl.

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[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Sure, so you start by getting 290 votes in the House. Those are the folks who needed 15 tries to get a simple 218 vote majority to decide who their own leader was.

Then you need 67 votes in the Senate, the folks who can't get 60 to break a filibuster.

Then you need ratification from 38 states... In 2020, they split 50/50 for Biden vs. Trump, here's the map:

Find 13 red states willing to give up their guns. Oh, wait, did I say 13? Yeah, 6 Biden states have Republican statehouses, so now you're looking at needing as many as 19 Trump states to give up their guns.