I keep seeing the taunt, "Obama hasn't taken away your guns" being offered by people

[zipplewrath]

53. In 45 years?

Yes, I think the trend in urban areas will be towards even less tolerance than we have now in urban areas where gun ownership will be even lower than today. Yes, I think the historical trends have shown that this tolerance, or lack thereof is where the whole "gun control" culture really started. Yes, I think DC and Chicago are prime examples of that and going forward, over whole generations, that will become more prevelant. Yes, I think, long term, that the continued existence of mass shootings and urban gun violence will have a cumulative affect to accelerate larger trends that have existed for decades.

I've lived a long time. I've watched trend after trend fall. I can remember some of the first efforts to stop smoking. If you went back to 1969 and told them what it would be like today, they'd laugh you out of the bar. Auto safety was promulgated by the savior of conservatism, Ronald Reagan, through rather aggressive federal regulation. Nixon started the EPA. That wild eyed liberal, GW Bush, brought us Medicare Part D without "paying for it" (the largest expansion of medicare in two generations). Yes, I watch larger trends looking for the signs of major changes. All the signs of a major change are in place.

By the way, on a totally unrelated subject, the current generation of 16-18 year olds have known nothing but a Black president and a black FLOTUS. And now the "leading" candidate for the democrats is a woman, and the republican response last night was by Nikki Haley. Imagine how that has altered the future voters images of presidential politics.