Like most of the Real Americans that support the Second Amendment, I am agog at the gullibility and willful illiteracy of most American gun control advocates, up to and including many of their leadership.
For years, I’ve thought “this just has to be part of a strategy to rope in the gullible, the badly-informed, the fear-driven, and the intellectual-legends-in-their-own-minds”.
And as with most of my flippant observations about human behavior that start out as sarcastic jokes and almost invariably turn out to be ironclad truths, it turns out I’m exactly,l precisely correct.
The “Violence Policy Center” – a “think tank” supported by liberals with deep pockets, that’s short on the “think” and long on the “in the tank” – did a report on gun control tactics in 1988. While I was pro-Second-Amendment back then, I didn’t spend a lot of time reading the opposition on the subject.
And if I had, I’d have spent the past 27 years beating on this coming quote like John Bonham playing “Moby Dick”:
“The semi-automatic weapons’ menacing looks, coupled with the public’s confusion over fully automatic machine guns versus semi-automatic assault weapons — anything that looks like a machine gun is assumed to be a machine gun — can only increase the chance of public support for restrictions on these weapons.”
In other words, the past three decades of the gun control movement have been predicated on exploiting technical ignorance, fear and gullibility.
It extends to all areas of their agenda, of course – stats, policy, history – but rarely do you find a grabber putting it in as many words.
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