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| The NRA will fall. It’s inevitable |
| 2015-10-21 |
| The US Constitution was written the way it is so that factions cannot gain control over national issues. Also, in the case of gun control and gun laws, this professor ignores the plain standard for passing legislation: Consent of the governed. If passed laws fail to meet that standard, they should not be signed into law. Period. The professor also ignores the fact that tyrants do not have to be single individuals. They can be political factions bent on destroying a less favored political group, in this case, gun owners. In such an instance, gun owners still get one more vote. This guy can cite government statistics until he is blue in the face, and stack that data as high as the 20,000 gun laws nationwide already on the books, but it doesn't change this single fact: You have a right to keep and bear arms. Congress can't pass laws seizing arms or ammunition, nor can the several states and cities. The right is immutable and longstanding. Any attempt to further take away those rights takes us all one step closer to an armed confrontation. From TFA: The recent deadly shooting at an Oregon community college, like so many before it, isn’t likely to lead to new federal laws designed to curb dangerous people’s access to guns. While this understandably frustrates supporters of gun safety legislation, there is reason for them to be hopeful. The National Rifle Association’s days of being a political powerhouse may be numbered. Why? The answer is in the numbers. Support for, and opposition to, gun control is closely associated with several demographic characteristics, including race, level of education and whether one lives in a city. Nearly all are trending forcefully against the NRA. The core of the NRA’s support comes from white, rural and relatively less educated voters. This demographic is currently influential in politics but clearly on the wane. While the decline of white, rural, less educated Americans is generally well known, less often recognized is what this means for gun legislation. Polls show that whites tend to favor gun rights over gun control by a significant margin (57 percent to 40 percent). Yet whites, who comprise 63 percent of the population today, won’t be in the majority for long. Racial minorities are soon to be a majority, and they are the nation’s strongest supporters of strict gun laws. An overwhelming majority of African Americans say that gun control is more important than gun rights (72 percent to 24 percent). While the African American population shows signs of slow growth, other racial minority groups are growing more rapidly — and report even greater support for gun control. The fastest-growing minority group in America is Latinos. Between 2000 and 2010, the nation’s Latino population grew by 43 percent. Hispanics, which make up 17 percent of the population today, are expected to grow to 30 percent of the population in the coming decades. Gun control is extremely popular among Hispanics, with 75 percent favoring gun safety over gun rights. Asian Americans also represent a growing anti-gun demographic. Although only about 5 percent of the population today, the Asian American population is predicted to triple over the next few decades. A recent poll of Asian American registered voters found that 80 percent supported stricter gun laws. More at the link |
| Posted by:badanov |
| #5 If only the stupid party would say that everytime gun confiscation comes up. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2015-10-21 16:59 |
| #4 Since "gun control" was first instituted to keep free blacks from protecting themselves and their families from KKK and Democrat (but I repeat myself) attacks/lynchings, and Jim Crow laws were more of the same, I presume anyone who approves of taking guns from citizens is racist and wants blacks to die in large numbers. |
| Posted by: Barbara 2015-10-21 14:22 |
| #3 The article also seems to think peoples opinions don't change over time. The black community has bee moving against gun control from what I understand. I suspect the Hispanic community will do the same as they realize 'the good guys' cannot be there to protect everyone from 'the bad guys'. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2015-10-21 10:26 |
| #2 They probably think that a favorable poll for, "Do you think guns are a problem in your community?" is an indication of a preference for gun control. |
| Posted by: KBK 2015-10-21 09:17 |
| #1 It's vastly more likely that the university system and the governments wasteful debt schemes to fund it will go. |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2015-10-21 06:48 |