I'm preparing for the worst on this, to be honest. Modern media wall-to-wall tragedy-whoring on any incident makes it very difficult for elected officials to stand up for anything on the basis of an abstract principle in the face of aggrieved victims' families and clamoring overwrought fanatics with the media spinning them both up into an emotional frenzy.
Airwolf is right.
We are going to loose this argument the same way we have been loosing every argument.
The blogosphere did not save us 2012 and it will not save us in this fight. If anyone knows how to beat the media at informing the mushy middle I am all ears.
Common sense is a useless weapon and if we go down that road we will loose on this issue to.
If anybody here thinks that we can get our argument out to the great unwashed masses I would like to hear an explanation how.
Talk about Debbie Downers. I haven't seen any R's rolling over and selling us out yet. A couple NRA endorsed 'rat senators and usual gun grabbing suspects like Bloomberg, yeah, but no surprise there this close after the election. Maybe NRA will learn a lesson supporting these flip-floppers.
While at the federal level the election outcome was less than desirable things are much better at the state level. Gun rights and CCW have progressed greatly the past 10 years. Poll after poll has showed little support for increased gun control- almost as if the issue was laid to rest after the AWB was put into law and allowed to expire as it was a big waste of time and pretty much didn't change a damn thing. Gun control was a non-issue during the campaign and it's not as though the shootings started Nov. 7.
If 'rats want to burn their political capital fighting this battle let 'em shoot themselves in the feet. I don't think it's going anywhere. At least nothing substantial anyway.
