Wednesday, April 3, 2013

Why gun control drew a blank

Jennifer Rubin lists 10 reasons that President Obama's gun control plans are going nowhere.
She saves the best for last.
10. There are a whole lot of law-abiding gun owners who don’t trust the government.
The last is perhaps the most important factor, too often ignored by the gun-averse media. The NRA succeeds because it has many, many members who feel strongly about the issue and see the ominous hands of government behind innocuous-sounding proposals (e.g. “background checks”). Just as liberals viscerally recoil from government regulation of marriage and abortion, conservatives do when it comes to guns.

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