Chet the Confederate seems not to have yet heard of the newest gun enthusiast conspiracy? That Newtown was staged by the Obama Administration to take everyone's guns away. Really.
In fact state, city and local authorities are asking for new laws to help stem the freedom of information calls for the murdered children's grave sites, autopsies, birth certificates, family addresses and phone numbers. They are harassing the parents. It doesn't get much lower than that. Which is what we are dealing with allowing a few people who wake up every morning thinking about their armory, talk about their AR15 all day, and dream about guns all night to write our gun laws. It's beyond an addiction, it's a foul sickness.
I was reading literature last night, you know the real thing, like from a BOOK. It explained why we allow a sick minority of gun enthusiasts to write our gun laws. It is for the same reason we allow a silly minority to push their intolerant religious crap on the rest of us. And why we let them pretend Global Warming is a hoax, or evolution is a lie, or the President is from Kenya, or immigrants are the problem. We let them get away with all that crap because as a nation we do not want to offend, disparage or pile on the lower class no matter what ignorant, uneducated, nastyass boneheads they may be. It is part of our heritage to stand up for the little stupid guy. Well, white ones anyway.