Deluded
A piece on how now is the tipping point for gun control:
Most activists agree that there is a long fight ahead. Yet, as Rebecca Leber noted recently in the New Republic, it appears the issue of gun violence has crossed irrevocably into the mainstream. Gun control has the potential to be the deciding issue of 2016. And its Democrats, for a change, who stand to benefit, she writes.
The reality is that pools show the opposite. Peak gun control was achieved in the 1990s and has since been reigned in, with screams from democrats and the media (but I repeat myself). But, hey, if it gets them through the day to think like that . . .
April 24th, 2016 at 3:02 pm
Funny… “it appears the issue of gun violence has crossed irrevocably into the mainstream.”
Yes it has, and Americans have increasingly decided that the old canards of gun control are as lacking in sincerity as they are in substance and logic.
April 24th, 2016 at 3:32 pm
“Gun violence” may be up here and there, but “Gun violence” reporting is up everywhere.
April 24th, 2016 at 5:06 pm
“…And its Democrats….who stand to benefit…”
Harriet Tubman begs to differ.
April 24th, 2016 at 9:29 pm
Here is all you need to know;
“Sarah Aziza is an Arab-American writer, graduate student and activist based in NYC. She has previously worked among refugee populations in North Africa, Jordan and the West Bank. Her areas of focus include immigration, human rights, international politics, feminism and mental health.”
Yeah, lets do what she says, sign me up.
April 24th, 2016 at 9:45 pm
She has previously worked among refugee populations in North Africa, Jordan and the West Bank.
You’d think someone with that experience would be all for an armed populace.
But then again Chucky Schumer and DiFi are all in for gun control too.
April 25th, 2016 at 12:10 am
“You’d think someone with that experience would be all for an armed populace.” –rickn8or
Yes, you would think that if you were dealing with a normal person with common decency, but — ONLY YOUR ENEMY WANTS YOU DISARMED
April 25th, 2016 at 5:05 pm
Hey, how about an article explaining why gun and ammo sales and concealed permits are through the roof, and how violent crime has DROPPED accordingly?
Only criminals and Liberals should fear gun-owning citizens.
MOLON LABE
April 25th, 2016 at 5:45 pm
Gunny, she’s still working on the “How Can You Tell Me Crime Rates Have Dropped When There Are So Many People in Jail” presentation.
April 25th, 2016 at 6:45 pm
Rebecca’s thinking is very regressive:
“Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.” — Aristotle, circa 300 B.C.
April 25th, 2016 at 8:10 pm
Hey, let the Dems get their gun control BS going. After all, Hillary was going to use a “War on Women” campaign but that got busted when Trump laughed at it. They need something, anything, to gin up discord.
April 27th, 2016 at 1:30 am
All this talk of “gun violence”, never is it mentioned that the “gun violence” is not being perpetrated by law
abiding gun owners. The “gun violence” is being committed by black and mexican gang members. Yet I never hear of black and mexican gang control laws.