Is he of the understanding that gun shootings are the product of red states?
There have been seven listed mass shootings so far this year - three in California, one in Michigan, one in Texas and one in Utah.
2022 was similar, with the most injuries occurring in such red bastions of New York City, Chicago and Philadelphia. Despite what the media tells you, many of these were perpetrated by persons of color (NYC, Chicago, St Louis, Chattanooga etc.) and not red state rednecks. And they're typically done with handguns, not AR-15s.
I suppose - are the guns COMING from red states? Basically, no, although many are stolen.
What IS motivating so many shootings? Drugs and gangs. Yeah, the ones that make the news, sensational stories, superficially appearing to be political (but never are). You want to know why? Because people in red and rural states don't view "blue" states as the enemy and don't have media demonizing them as such. Gun crimes and mass shootings happen in blue states by blue residents using blue guns. Blaming the red states is just avoiding the problem.
There IS, of course, this basic red and blue supposition and Obama actually had it right - every blue state is partly red, and every red state is partly blue. You don't cross the border from West Virginia into Maryland and your own political leanings turn 180 degrees. There are about 5 million registered Republicans in California - more than there are PEOPLE in many "red" states. New York has similar numbers and about half of those registered rarely show up.
More telling is in many states, there are more Independents than anything. Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey - and a few more - there's more independents or non-party affiliated voters than EITHER party.
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You can no more "blame" red states than blue states. None are all or really vastly either, and even the most die-hard blue or red voter can agree with some issues across the aisle.
What we NEED is to get rid of the idea that plans cannot be compromised, that you can't reach agreement. Right now what we have is, NOTHING is being accomplished because when a plan fails, the other side gets demonized. And with a left-leaning press, it's usually Republicans.