# Will this election also be decided by the perverse American fetish for GUNS?

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**Created:** [September 15, 2019, 9:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-this-election-also-be-decided-by-the-perverse-american-fetish-for-guns/840259 "2019-09-15T09:01:08Z")\
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**Author:** ![MartinLane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f17d59/32.png) [@MartinLane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MartinLane)\
**Post date:** [September 18, 2019, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-this-election-also-be-decided-by-the-perverse-american-fetish-for-guns/840259/192 "2019-09-18T20:53:27Z")

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> [@sambucus](#):
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> So to the original premise… Passion for GUNS should not be a factor. The mendacity of Orange Julius Caesar is part of a national emergency. And I wont “gun vote” if it means keeping that idiot in office.

Keeping Trump in office does not protect gun ownership by any stretch of the imagination. Trump has demonstrated that he is the most anti-gun president we’ve had in a long time; even more so than Clinton.

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