I literally answered this in the sentence right above where you copy and pasted.
The conversation on the campaign trail is different this year. Mass shootings are the reason why.
www.nbcnews.com
Democratic presidential candidate Beto O'Rourke has faced backlash from Republicans, and some Democrats, for his debate-night advocacy of a mandatory buyback program for so-called assault weapons. But Sen. Chuck Schumer went too far when he said, "I don't know of any other Democrat who agrees...
www.factcheck.org
As mass shootings pile up, several Democratic presidential candidates are embracing mandated “buybacks” of assault weapons, a proposal that sharpens the political divide on guns and raises the stakes for the 2020 election.
www.bloomberg.com
Here are the Democratic presidential candidates who have put out gun policy reform proposals, have significant positions or experience that set them apart.
abcnews.go.com
Maybe not “you” but “the left” has talked mandatory buybacks.
But we’re getting off point here. My point was, and still is that, if the left wants to get rid of guns, why are they not turning them in?
Seems nobody wants to answer that…