Posted on 02/24/2013 10:30:08 PM PST by Seizethecarp
A not-so-small miracle is unfolding before our eyes. After nearly two decades in which established opinion insisted that it would never again be possible to pass sensible regulations of firearms, the unthinkable is on the verge of happening.
This week, Sen. Patrick Leahy, the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, is expected to announce plans to start marking up gun bills to send to the Senate floor, proposals that will include ideas put before the country by President Obama and Vice President Biden. The president's agenda, in turn, was inspired by advocates and legislators, mayors and police chiefs, who have been working quietly in the wilderness for years.
Told over and over again that members of both parties were forever destined to do the National Rifle Association's bidding, these supporters of thoroughly moderate and reasonable weapons measures never gave up and never surrendered. Their time has come.
Behind the miracle, of course, lies the profound tragedy at Sandy Hook Elementary School and the loss of "26 beautiful lives," as Lynn McDonnell, mother of 7-year-old Grace McDonnell, one of those beautiful lives, put it at a conference in Connecticut last week.
Suddenly, Americans in large numbers (and the media, too) started noticing how extreme, even wacky, the rhetoric of the gun manufacturers' lobby has become. Their talk about representing the "real America" was exposed as a fraud: "Real" Americans don't resist pragmatic solutions to the problems of mass violence.
Oh, yes, and it was also finally noticed that a majority of Americans doesn't own guns, that gun ownership has dropped over time, and that this real majority does not want to be forced to live in a world in which everyone is terrorized into buying a weapon.
(Excerpt) Read more at realclearpolitics.com ...
Just when I thought E.J. Dionne couldn’t possibly get more delusional or in the bag for the Dems...
“gun ownership has dropped over time”
Time to send the guys in the white coats over to the Dionne residence...again!
AR-15s and ammo are backordered into the next decade by now...
“this real majority does not want to be forced to live in a world in which everyone is terrorized into buying a weapon”
O’Bammy should resign immediately! That would take care of the problem, Mr. Dionne.
65.4 Million Guns Bought Since Obama Took Office, 91% More Than Bush's First-Term Total
MOLON LAVE!
E.J.’s always good for a laugh.
Two things stand in the way of his wet dream: A Republican House and Harry Reid.
...oh yeah,,, A 100,000,000 screamin’ mad gun owners.
“Told over and over again that members of both parties were forever destined to do the National Rifle Association’s bidding, these supporters of thoroughly moderate and reasonable weapons measures never gave up and never surrendered. Their time has come.”
Their time has come to roll over again!
The Dem/libs have been engaging in a steady push to infringe on our right to keep and bear arms for decades. And this is how it has been working out for them in the last two decades...
And in the last two months...
If the lefties keep pushing gun control in another two decades one out of two Americans may be gun owners instead of one out of three.
MOLON LAVE! WE'LL BUY MORE. ;-)
The author
No, it has not yet come to this.
Soon, perhaps, but not yet.
Huh... Then why do gun shops have lines for miles down the highway of people who want to get on the waiting list for future shipments of guns and ammo?
E.J. Dionne is a useful weathervane for conservatives.
E.J.'s opinion are formed by his social circle -- including fellow libs at the Washington Post, liberal politicians of both parties and the liberal intelligentsia that "runs Washington".
His is a view into the mind of the elite liberal ruling class.
Which is to say they evidently really, really believe that, this time, they'll get away with it. They think they will get, at least, gun registration...and they won't have to pay a political price.
In other words, they think they have the Connstitution by the short hairs and that they are bulletproof. When it comes to the 2014 mid-terms the ramifications could be enormous.
Washington is the most insular city in the world.
Where’s Senator Byrd when we need him to pull his pocket constitution out and wave it around while berating his colleagues?
I'm sure with his wit and intelligence he'll be able to charm his way into some sort of survival for his family and himself, as unpleasant and short as it will be.
I am the NRA and I am legion. Don't forget that liberals.
Does this douch-bag spend time in S.F. bath houses? Looks like it.
The Overton Window has already closed.
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