Could the tide be turning?
Posted: Sun Dec 30, 2012 9:51 am
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/cri ... story.html
We were to the Ft. Worth gun show yesterday and it was the same as in the VA story. History suggests that there is an uptick in gun sales after a mass shooting as there was after the AZ Giffords tragedy but it was nothing like this. I remarked to the people that I was with at the gun show that there certainly appeared to be a lot of potential law breakers attending since many were buying the very items mentioned in the possible gun bans.
The number of articles about proposals to allow guns into schools is more than surprising to me. I would have expected pro-gun forces to "hunker down" in the wake of the Sandy Hook massacre but that doesn't appear to be the case. The Federal government gun free zones have been the corner stone of their gun control outreach since the AWB was lifted. I would never have expected them to be openly challenged by other than the NRA.
The recent polls which suggest that the NRA is more popular than Obama are another indicator of change. Given the Liberal venom against the NRA (which I think is designed more to reduce its political power than as against gun issues), I'm almost shocked.
I admit that I often look for information which validates my opinion. I certainly don't want to get my hopes up. But the fact that the Federal government may be involved for several months in the fiscal cliff mess suggests that the raw emotions following Sandy Hook may have waned someone before gun control legislation can make it to the floors of the House and Senate.
I'm not suggesting that this is a time for optimism among Second Amendment supporters but that it appears that it might not be as ugly as I originally thought. Is there a glimmer of hope here or should I just move to CO or WA with the rest of the pot heads?
We were to the Ft. Worth gun show yesterday and it was the same as in the VA story. History suggests that there is an uptick in gun sales after a mass shooting as there was after the AZ Giffords tragedy but it was nothing like this. I remarked to the people that I was with at the gun show that there certainly appeared to be a lot of potential law breakers attending since many were buying the very items mentioned in the possible gun bans.
The number of articles about proposals to allow guns into schools is more than surprising to me. I would have expected pro-gun forces to "hunker down" in the wake of the Sandy Hook massacre but that doesn't appear to be the case. The Federal government gun free zones have been the corner stone of their gun control outreach since the AWB was lifted. I would never have expected them to be openly challenged by other than the NRA.
The recent polls which suggest that the NRA is more popular than Obama are another indicator of change. Given the Liberal venom against the NRA (which I think is designed more to reduce its political power than as against gun issues), I'm almost shocked.
I admit that I often look for information which validates my opinion. I certainly don't want to get my hopes up. But the fact that the Federal government may be involved for several months in the fiscal cliff mess suggests that the raw emotions following Sandy Hook may have waned someone before gun control legislation can make it to the floors of the House and Senate.
I'm not suggesting that this is a time for optimism among Second Amendment supporters but that it appears that it might not be as ugly as I originally thought. Is there a glimmer of hope here or should I just move to CO or WA with the rest of the pot heads?
