re: #84 Anymouse 🌹

And cars used to be treated (until the Thirties) as an absolute right to own; the auto club was the NRA of its day, striking down law after law in the courts and with politicians under the rubric of “the right to travel.”

As the carnage of unregistered cars and unlicensed drivers continued to mount, cars went from an absolute right to one of the most highly regulated things in society.

One can hope that the arc of legislation will bend the way cars did with guns, but we’ll have to see. If a GOP congressman getting shot wasn’t enough for even that congressman (Steve Scalise) to have a change of mind, I’m not sure what will.

The only thing that will lead to a change is not a change in minds but a change of personnel: Democrats attain both the Presidency and complete control of Congress including substantially more than 60 Senators — maybe 2/3rds of both houses. I cannot imagine what would change minds of the GOP.