Rio 2016: top American Olympic shooter Kim Rhode attacks gun control laws

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30. If you read about the history of gun-control, the extremist controllers set the tone...

some 50 years ago by demonizing gun-owners willy-nilly in the always compliant MSM. In fact, MSM is an institutional element of gun control. It is this markedly extremist position by MSM and the small number of well-positioned elites which has caused the liberalization (ironic, isn't it?) of gun laws around the nation over the last 30 years. In short, you have it backwards: The second amendment supporters responded to the controllers, only the former could make their laws stick and stick hard.

By now it should be obvious that the gun control outlook (it certainly is NOT a movement) wears no clothes. That is why it proposes more Leland Yee-type legislation, and has made demonization, animosity and that old go-to in American culture, shaming, to become its major "talking points." Second Amendmemt advocates have taken notice, and acted accordingly by passing ever-more liberalized gun laws, and in so doing filled the legislatures of most states in the Union with regrettably extremist legislators who know an issue gift when they see it. And those legislatures run the table with reapportionmemt schemes: They WILL be there for a long time, courtesy of that gift what keeps on giving: Gun control.

I would remind you that the nation's murder-by-gun rate has plunged over the last 20+ years, even as the number of firearms has balooned beyond anyone's expectations. I support UBCs, but what was once a reasonable measure with a chance of passage is more a pipe dream as the controllers can't resist that glance back at Sodom and loading up simple legislation with more and more restrictions. And each time the controllers propose unrealistic laws, the guns fly off the shelves, ammo goes in short supply, money flows into 2A pressure groups, and the Democratic Party gets smash-mouthed again. And again.