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Surprising to resist one kind of massive state power and then support another. If the US government really didn't want mentally ill people to get guns then the
by temphn 13y ago
Surprising to resist one kind of massive state power and then support another. If the US government really didn't want mentally ill people to get guns then the homeless would be off the streets and in prisons or asylums. Instead there was an attempt to criminalize transactions by law abiding people, purely as an expression of media animus against gun owners and with zero concern for false positive rates.
As for popularity, I'd bet "90%" of people would support virtually anything after being subject to four months of wall to wall propaganda by the corporate media and government. It is amazing to me how erstwhile supporters of minority rights now champion the most literal majoritarianism when convenient.
And how do you see the kind of extraordinary show of force we just saw in Boston and conclude that the citizenry should be even more helpless, more disempowered? Life is a Rorschach test, I guess.
- reader5000 13y agoI'd bet 90% of gun owners would support virtually anything after being subjected to four months of corporate gun industry propaganda. You know, bullshit like how owning a gun "empowers" you.
- wyager 13y agoDo you think the gun lobby helped to write the second amendment? I'd also like to point out that the gun industry doesn't really run ads in the same way most industries do. I've never seen a single gun ad outside of a gun magazine.
- reader5000 13y agoDo I think corporate gun interests influence how the 2a is interpreted? Absolutely.
- temphn 13y agoHow much money does the NRA have? How big is the gun industry? How much money does the mainstream media and the federal government have? Or OFA and Soros, for that matter? Worth a bit of Googling. Methinks you don't have a good order-of-magnitude estimate of how much money is on each side.
- reader5000 13y agoThe gun industry is $32 billion. Mainstream media and fed government are not on a "side". Soros is $20 billion but a tiny fraction of that is devoted to advocacy. OFA, assuming you mean Obama For America (?), is not a single issue entity. The gun corporations are, and that single issue is maximizing profit.