{"id":35870,"date":"2013-04-19T06:13:55","date_gmt":"2013-04-19T11:13:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=35870"},"modified":"2013-04-19T06:13:55","modified_gmt":"2013-04-19T11:13:55","slug":"bring-the-whisky-and-cigars-to-the-funeral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=35870","title":{"rendered":"Bring The Whisky And Cigars To The Funeral"},"content":{"rendered":"

This year’s battle to destroy the Second Amendment is dead – at least in DC.<\/p>\n

I’ve said it for years; the gun control debate is the most ironic battle in American politics.<\/p>\n

The left – the movement that floats on Soros and Rockefeller and Allen and Opperman and Messinger money – loves to paint itself as the party of the working stiff, the fabled “99%”; it likes to pretend the right is white, rich and disconnected from the world. \u00a0The left, back to its historical roots, is built on the idea of struggle between classes.<\/p>\n

And yet gun control is the most class-focused debate in America today. \u00a0Our elites – of both parties, in some cases – loathe the Second Amendment, or at the very least think it’s a quaint doddering relic. \u00a0It’s the American mainstreet – the real\u00a0<\/em>99% -that supports the Second Amendment.<\/p>\n

The plebeians just keep defying those patricians.<\/p>\n

Reason notes this as well<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Whatever the merits and popularity of the specific measures that went down to defeat in the Senate on Wednesday, I think the Establishment fails to appreciate the depth of American support for the Second Amendment. NPR and other media have lately noted a growing libertarian trend in American politics. That\u2019s not just about taxes, Obamacare, marijuana, and marriage equality. It also involves gun rights. After each high-profile shooting, support for gun control rises. But it tends to fall again in short order, as public opinion reverts to the baseline of strong support for gun rights.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And the fact that controlling guns is only a vital issue to 4% of the people indicates that the vast majority know the score; guns don’t kill people, people do.<\/p>\n

I’m going to add emphasis below:<\/p>\n

I was struck by this poll graphic in the Washington Post on Wednesday. Despite the virtually unanimous support for stricter gun control in the national media, along with other opinion shapers such as Hollywood and the universities, and despite the mass shootings that have received so much attention in our modern world of 24-hour news channels, Americans are becoming more convinced that guns make your family safer<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The media in particular exhibits a persistent form of Pauline Kael syndrome on the subject of guns; they accept gun control as an ideal almost completely without question, and seem nonplussed that the nation ignores them.<\/p>\n

But yet they continue their narrative – that the NRA is a astroturf checkbook advocacy group supported by Big Gun and Big Business. \u00a0Yesterday, some in the media breathlessly reported the departure of Adolphus Bush from the NRA board<\/a> as a “blow to the NRA”.<\/p>\n

It’s not. \u00a0The group’s membership is up nearly a quarter since Newtown. \u00a0It’s just shown the entire country that it can shut the media down on Capitol Hill. \u00a0It’s just shown it commands more of the hearts and minds of this country’s real people than the President does, at least on the gun issue.<\/p>\n

But that’s not the narrative, now, is it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This year’s battle to destroy the Second Amendment is dead – at least in DC. I’ve said it for years; the gun control debate is the most ironic battle in American politics. The left – the movement that floats on Soros and Rockefeller and Allen and Opperman and Messinger money – loves to paint itself […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,130,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","category-tc-media-bias","category-victim-disarmament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35870"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35870\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35879,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35870\/revisions\/35879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}