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By: SayUncle » VT Gun law fallout

SayUncle » VT Gun law fallout — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 13:01:52 +0000

[...] may have spoke too soon. Here’s comes the first wave: US Sen. Charles Schumer (D-NY) and US Rep. Carolyn McCarthy [...]

By: existingthing

existingthing — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 03:22:57 +0000

I’ve noticed democrats and libs picking up the 2nd amendment slowly over the past year. I guess the democrat and lib politicians are more in-tune with their constituents because their change has been just as subtle.

I think minds are changing.

I still have nothing specific to attribute it to (though liberal blogs supporting RKBA have made a difference, I’m sure), I think the “So, Bush is Hitler? Why don’t you want guns then?” argument is sinking in. But that’s just speculation.

By: Alcibiades

Alcibiades — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 21:23:47 +0000

Perhaps a t-shirt is needed that says, “I am the gun lobby”.

…and then we need to get women, minorities, and gays to wear them for public relations purposes.

By: Xrlq

Xrlq — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 15:56:44 +0000

Then again, maybe we’re all fools to be analyzing the political impact of the VT massacre a mere week after it happened. For all we know, maybe Bowling for VTech is being filmed as we speak.

By: Xrlq

Xrlq — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 15:54:57 +0000

I think there may be a “been there, done that” mentality among some would-be gun control advocates. In the wake of Columbine, a few thousand angry shrews called themselves a million moms and marched on Washington for more gun control. They ended up getting squat, and in fact losing ground as the AW ban expired and more states went shall-issue. The libs haven’t exactly seen the light on the merits of the gun issue, but may well have come to recognize it as the political loser that it is.

By: BobG

BobG — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 15:51:10 +0000

I think the grabbers are just biding their time; they have hopes of a liberal POTUS and/or more liberal representatives in 2008. If that happens, they’ll be writing more idiot laws as fast as they can.

By: The Commissar

The Commissar — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 15:39:02 +0000

In the past two decades, there has been a crystallization of the red state, blue state, swing state phenomenon. So, Dem politicians, who in prior years would have been the ones ’screaming for gun control,’ know, before they get started that doing so will only piss off voters in Florida, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Missouri, Ohio, Michigan, Arizona, Nevada, etc. What’s more, since they already have New York and California sewed up, there’s less need to push issues popular with their own base.

By: _Jon

_Jon — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 15:33:52 +0000

Meh thinks it is because people realize it is just frickin’ obvious that those people could not defend themselves.
- He didn’t use “assault weapons”, he used common pistols.
- He didn’t hold them hostage, he hid among them.
- People survived to tell what happened and that story came out unfiltered. Perhaps due to blogs, live coverage showed interviews uncensored, perhaps due to fear of being scooped.
- It wasn’t a conspiracy, it was just a guy who lost it. We *all* know people who could lose it.
- Perhaps it was because the city and school had recently turned down requests to allow CCW holders to carry there.
- Perhaps it was the school administrator’s letter rejecting a request by a CCW holder to carry on campus where he _bragged_ that the students on that campus were well-protected due to all of the well-armed and well-trained security people on his staff.

I know that Americans have a strong “self preservation / self supporting” mentality. This man was the equivalent of a tornado hitting campus. Many call a tornado “The Finger of God” because it can touch _here_ but not _there_. This even was similar to such an occurrence. It appears to me that most Americans do not look to others to protect them from a tornado. They look to their own preparations and abilities. I think it is the same thing here.

Those are my brief thoughts on the subject.

By: Jake

Jake — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 15:33:23 +0000

I have a sneaking-suspicion that the pols have learned that being overtly anti-gun is a non-winner. Many folks speculate that the Clinton ban got all those folks booted out of office to hand-over Republican control.

Perhaps they’re keeping quiet & waiting to see if they can capture the executive branch in ‘08. If they do, you can bet that all the antis will come out of the woodwork.