re: #309 HappyWarrior

Yet it’s only in the past 40 years that the gun lobby has been radical. Read SL’s link above about how the moderates in the NRA were purged in favor of extremists. It’s true. Arms sales drive economies but at the same time, we have not always had a gun lobby that rejects any sensible legislation on firearms, that’s a recent development.

Is it?

Or is it just since Hiroshima that we have had a conscious.

There are some that would say it all started with the 19th Amendment.