Nebs Sez
"Gun Control is a sad little White Liberal band-aid upon the gaping wound of Corporatist Capitalism. White Liberals cling to it as a panacea for a collapsing Social Order because they lack the moral courage to face the possible loss of the cruel and unjust system that they themselves still profit by
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The "Left" see gun control as a way to decrease the seemingly endless violence. The "Right" quite accurately notes that gun violence has been on the decline for decades, despite the hype in commercial media.
Hype which, quite likely, exists to maintain the "debate" and keep the coffers of both parties filled for battle in the next election.
Dan Baum, author of Gun Guys, told the Democratic Party Elite to just give up the gun debate. Why?
If liberals thought they were weakening the enemy by smashing its idols, they had it exactly wrong. It was hard to think of a better organizing tool for the right than the left's tribal antipathy to guns. . . . America was full of working people who wouldn't listen to the donkey party-about anything-because of the Democrats' identification with gun control.
(Dan Baum, Gun Guys, Borzoi Books, 2013, p. 270.)
The Party Elite probably looked at their bank account and just ignored him.
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