This is what we are dealing with:

NRA’s LaPierre says gun rights struggle a ‘long war’

Wayne LaPierre, the nation’s most visible gun rights advocate, rallied supporters on Saturday for a renewed fight against gun-control, saying membership is up since the Newtown massacre and calling the effort to stop new limits a “long war” and a “fight for everything we care about.”

Remarks by the National Rifle Association’s executive vice president at the group’s annual convention in Houston were heavy with militaristic and sweeping patriotic rhetoric and were characteristically hard on President Barack Obama, who has pushed for new firearms restrictions following the Connecticut school massacre in December.

The worldview to which LaPierre clings is out of time, defunct, and stays around because people are easily scared.

LaPierre and his followers want an 18th century society in the 21st.

It won’t fit, and that becomes more evident every year.

But they cling to it, oh yes, they cling.