Let's call them what they are:

[Eleanors38]

1. I can appreciate your thoughts on these matters. But this is a culture war...

The controller/banners are looking for ANY restrictions, however ineffective or ill-conceived, in order to strike back at whole populations of people which have been amply demonized on this site and in MSM. The same kind of anything goes approach has ALWAYS underwritten prohibitionist theory; the thing, the practice, the status is secondary, even the purported society improvements (rarely defined in the face of the very real data of far fewer crimes and childhood accidental gun deaths) are of minor importance. It is the hatred of other people that is all to the prohibitionist. What has caused this prohibitionism to persist is not the numbers of gun controllers, their financial backing or some splendid grassroots organizing. It is the near hegemony of anti-gun viewpoints within the policies and editorial staff of MSM, and the elite positioning of anti-gun politicians within the Democratic Party. Even the assumed political support of academia has fallen on hard times since the Bellesiles' blow up, and the increasing weight of data showing the drop in crime and gun accident rates.

The prohis are locked into their highly-charged moral positions (as evidenced by the same gun control droning at the Convention) probably to placate the elite hardcore in the Party, and to gve some mystical assurance to minorities that their communities can be improved by passing ban laws, sorta like the WOD, another prohibition supported by both parties and the leadership within these communities. Fortunately, drug prohibition is beginning to smell of complete decay.

Worthy of future discussion:. How the Democratic Party, which has junked its older liberal/progressive foundation (FDR, HST, HHH, LBJ, etc.), has come to rely on the emaciated and false god of regulatory proprohibition, and how all this dovetails with the Party's evident abandonment of whole swaths of the country.