re: #576 HappyWarrior

Thank you and I don’t mean to come off as hating gun owners. I do not like guns, I will admit that here, I have my reasons- personal ones for doing so but I don’t begrudge people who do but I just think too often gun owners or more accurately the gun political lobby shuts down any reasonable conversation we could have on the subject. I really don’t think it should be more difficult to operate a car than a gun. I realize that firearm ownership is constitutionally guaranteed but A) they were writing that before the arms revolution that accompanied the Industrial Revolution and industrialization and B) We have a serious problem in this country with gun violence.

In the capitols, it’s really about the ILA, the legislative lobbying arm of the NRA. They are about gun and related items mfg., caring not one whit for the desires or needs of gun owners. The extremely low membership/affiliation numbers show this very starkly. 95% of gun owners voted with their feet.