This is not happening in a vacuum. The politicians are responding to what thy see as a grass-roots call for more gun control. If you want to place the blame for this, blame our fellow citizens rather than the politicians. In turn, the attitudes of our fellow citizens are formed by what we, as gun owners, are or are not doing. The failure of self-policing on the part of the gun community is what has brought this on ourselves.
Yes, a certain amount of blame can be placed at the feet of gun owners, however, one must realize that what
"they see as grass-roots call for more gun control" is in reality nothing more than the product of the media, who control/publish the polls (at the behest of the anti's) to support their agenda.
Indeed, we are ALL tired of the senseless violence being perpetrated nation wide, but it will not be resolved by passing more laws restricting only LAW ABIDING gun owners.
A very thoughtful post from another forum points out the fallacy of gun control as a solution to what the media at the behest of the anti's have come to call "gun" violence:
"I think Joe Biden said it best in a recent quote, "we chose truth over
facts." I do not think that is a Joe-ism, I think that they really do choose "truth" over facts. Truth is what you make it. But facts are facts.
The left, or anti-gunners of any persuasion for that matter have a problem with correlation and causation.
FACT: You cannot have "gun" violence without a gun.
FACT: Guns do not CAUSE gun violence.
Yes, there is a correlation with guns and gun violence and that is the use of the gun in the violent act. Removing the gun does NOTHING to stop violence, only gun violence. That is a correlation. Effecting one variable does not necessarily mean that the other variable will be equally effected.
There are many, debatable possible causations for gun violence and THOSE are what need to be examined. THAT is what freaks out the left. With so many possible variables causing violence how can we ever stop it? The short answer is, you can't. Violence is rooted in human behavior. You will NEVER be able to fully stop violence. So what if you remove guns, you cannot and will not stop violence. Because guns do not cause violence.
The single biggest mass murder event in the US in a school was committed using a bomb NOT a gun. Where is the call for bomb control?"
The problem is in the "what they see". In this day and age, polls are written, by those with an agenda, to fit their narrative and it is not hard for them to put their thumb on the scales to tilt the results.
Regards,
hps