Posted on 03/28/2014 12:06:13 PM PDT by neverdem
The Newtown shooting led gun-control advocates to try the same failed strategies again. And once again, they didn't work.
After the school shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, many in the American media insisted that the tragedy should prompt a "conversation about gun control." These articles were written as if there had never been such a conversation. In fact, the issue had been debated for decades. Given the results, I argued, there was no reason to presume that a new conversation would end in more gun control.
That conversation has now come and gone. The result?
"Perverse as it may sound, the horrific mass shooting in December 2012 at Sandy Hook Elementary produced a burst of state-level gun control bills around the country and then triggered a much stronger pro-gun backlash," Paul M. Barrett reports at Businessweek. "The counter-reaction has now reached its apogee in Georgia. In the past year alone, 21 states have enacted laws expanding gun rights, according to the Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence. Several states added piecemeal provisions allowing firearms on college campuses or in bars or churches. Georgia’s politicians, egged on by the National Rifle Association, have gone for broke."
He goes on to offer advice to gun-control advocates:
The smart response is not scorn or exaggeration...
(Excerpt) Read more at theatlantic.com ...
I'll bet CONOR FRIEDERSDORF - the guy who wrote this - is a puffed up liberal elite who hates conservatives and middle class Americans...
This was part of a reply I posted to another thread, and it IS the complete cause of the violence in our society today:
“And the truth is, the more and more liberal ideas are accepted in our society, the more dangerous and hopeless our society becomes.”
That is what is to blame for MOST of what is wrong today. And until it is reversed, nothing will get better.
I just saw that same scene less than a week ago.
No argument here, FRiend.
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