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It's a fact that there are MANY enemies of gun owners.

It's fair to say, unfortunately, that a majority of people have by now bought the lies that proponents of a Government of Inherent Authority (i.e. the Left meme) have been pushing.

Notwithstanding that RKBA is enshrined in the Constitution, relatively few people have the requisite understanding of the Framers' intentions, or the patience to learn, or even to defend their rights, that will be necessary to defend this right against the baying of the pack in years to come.

The Pew Center, in measuring America for its socialist knife, produced a typology of the American electorate in 1999. Only two or three of the nine or ten broad lifestyle blocs actually support RKBA. In the GOP, the business bloc or wing of the party is an especial danger. Dealing with money and people, and principally engaged in separating the former from the latter, businessmen have no love of the idea of an armed citizenry. Their guilty consciences love the idea of gun control. They are the most dangerous group to RKBA right now.

Watch out for signs that Bush/Ashcroft are "playing to lose" on RKBA issues. I realize that in the Emerson case, Ashcroft filed a brief stating that RKBA is an individual right. While that is a significant defi to offer the Left, what a lot of people missed was that Ashcroft and his Solicitor General, Ted Olson, didn't throw the other shoe: that the right cannot be infringed. They left the door open to "reasonable" gun control -- the kind the business community likes. The kind that will get your firearm, but not Donald Trump's or Punch Sulzberger's.

It's fair to say, unfortunately, that a majority of people have by now bought the lies that proponents of a Government of Inherent Authority (i.e. the Left meme) have been pushing.
Notwithstanding that RKBA is enshrined in the Constitution, relatively few people have the requisite understanding of the Framers' intentions, or the patience to learn, or even to defend their rights, that will be necessary to defend this right against the baying of the pack in years to come.
The Pew Center, in measuring America for its socialist knife, produced a typology of the American electorate in 1999. Only two or three of the nine or ten broad lifestyle blocs actually support RKBA. In the GOP, the business bloc or wing of the party is an especial danger. Dealing with money and people, and principally engaged in separating the former from the latter, businessmen have no love of the idea of an armed citizenry. Their guilty consciences love the idea of gun control. They are the most dangerous group to RKBA right now.

Watch out for signs that Bush/Ashcroft are "playing to lose" on RKBA issues. I realize that in the Emerson case, Ashcroft filed a brief stating that RKBA is an individual right. While that is a significant defi to offer the Left, what a lot of people missed was that Ashcroft and his Solicitor General, Ted Olson, didn't throw the other shoe: that the right cannot be infringed. They left the door open to "reasonable" gun control -- the kind the business community likes. The kind that will get your firearm, but not Donald Trump's or Punch Sulzberger's.

Thanks for the information. I had not heard of the Pew Center, nor their study. Is there a link where I can read about the entire study?