[Q-ManRN]

It is simple, there are two large groups of people who use guns: violent criminals and decent law-abiding people. Once you learn to differentiate between these two disparate groups, the emotional and extreme approach of gun control does not make sense.

Violent criminals do not get guns where they would undergo federal background checks. Violent criminals do not care if the law says that that you can only have 7 or 10 bullets in a gun. They do not care if the government bans guns. In fact, they do not care what the law says at all. That is the reason that they are criminals and it is also the reason that criminals can get guns.

[Q-ManRN]

The simple realities.

[umgud]

People don’t buy the bull$h!t anymore.

Gun control has no impact on crime rates. The only thisng that drives crime rates is the available number of criminals.

The reason Chicago is so violent and Billings Motana docile is Chicago haz a bumper crop of criminals and Billings doesn’t.

PERIOD

[RC one]

I think they realized that their laws did nothing to keep them out of the “bad guys” hands and they would have to take responsibility for their own self preservation.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

I carry a handgun because I can't carry a policeman.

[Wonder Warthog]

"Economist Bryan Caplan notes that support for gun control — specifically, banning handguns or pistols — has decreased dramatically since the 1950s and 1960s."

I think one factor that contributed was that the full agenda of gun control was revealed. At that time, there was (and still is) a statistical case for stronger controls on handguns as contributory to crime. In fact, the leading anti-gun org called itself "Handgun Control, Inc.". And then some bright boy inside HCI came up with the idea of an "assault weapons ban" on semi-automatic long guns. And indeed, for a while, it looked like that propaganda shift would be successful.

Problem was, there was NO evidential case that could be made for banning ANY long guns.....they were (and are) minor factors in crime.

And this it became clear that the REAL agenda of gun control was the eventual elimination from society of any and all firearms.

Enough people caught on so as to blunt the AWB legislation and get a cutoff date included after which the ban would "go away". Soooo.......society did the experiment. The AWB had zero effect on gun crime rates, and was not re-instated when it reached it's "sell-by" date.

And that was the high-water mark of gun control.

[Still Thinking]

Violent criminals do not get guns where they would undergo federal background checks. Violent criminals do not care if the law says that that you can only have 7 or 10 bullets in a gun. They do not care if the government bans guns. In fact, they do not care what the law says at all.

Not true at all. Violent criminals are no doubt the biggest supporters of civil rights violations against the rest of us. It's like OSHA for home invaders.