AlexanderA
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I partially agree with this. That is why I deliberately used the word "fueling" to describe the role of the soccer moms. In other words, they're the foot troops of the gun control movement (the "fuel"), and not the ones who call the shots.Suburban soccer moms are not the ones fueling gun control efforts. They are merely useful idiots allowing themselves to be used because like most people they think with their emotions instead of their brains.
We have to define what we mean by "the left." I'm old enough to still think of the left as the economic left. The classic Marxists didn't shy away from guns. (In fact Marx himself wrote that "under no circumstances should the workers allow themselves to be disarmed.") Today, there is a confusion. The "cultural left" is being lumped in with the economic left. I believe that this is a mistake.What is laughable is the assertion that the left is not behind the gun control movement. Look at the states with the strictest gun control laws and the states with the least restrictive and then see who runs those places.
In any case, the leadership of the antigun movement -- people like Michael Bloomberg -- are anything but leftists. Authoritarians and elitists, yes, but communists, no.