Posted on 05/02/2015 7:39:58 PM PDT by smokingfrog
Sociologist Jennifer Carlson says Americans will become more bitterly divided over the place of guns in society.
The most significant development won’t be a nationwide swing toward gun rights or gun control—but a widening and entrenched gulf that will divide Americans politically, socially and even technologically.
Gun-control initiatives will follow the approach blazed by the gun lobby, shifting away from the national stage and focusing increasingly on state-level efforts in places like California, Colorado, Connecticut and Washington. With the gun debate focused on state-level politics, high-profile shootings will exacerbate the division between these two Americas: in restrictive states, a demand for more laws; in permissive states, a demand for more guns.
In states with weak gun-control lobbies, expanded gun rights will be limited only by more centrist contingents of the gun lobby—for example, gun-rights proponents who speak out against the open carrying of firearms, which has been the subject of heated debate in Texas and elsewhere.
Polarization will result in greater diversity among gun owners.
(Excerpt) Read more at wsj.com ...
Anybody who agitates or votes against his absolute right to defend himself is a fool.
Not enough court challenges against state laws. We’re challenging a lot of them here in CA and making some progress, but the whole nation needs more. NY’s latest and the earliest (Sulivan) sure don’t seem constitutional to me.
Two of the author's "predictions" are simply observations of fact: first, that the fight is, and has been for some time, focused back at state level and the gun prohibitionists are losing badly; second, that firearms ownership demographics were never quite as lily-white as The Narrative claimed and are diversifying further not simply as a function of advertisement but as a function of the broadening conviction that the state cannot or will not protect the citizens in question. The right of self-protection gains a great deal of credence in the face of the necessity of self-protection.
For state-obsessed progressives and other totalitarians this isn't a good development. For the rest of us, it is, and if that "rest" includes anarchists, black separatists, revolutionaries, and other common allies of the Left, then all one can say is that politics makes strange bedfellows, and that maybe the gun prohibitionists will recognize a losing battle when it's staring them in the face. Or not. People who believe their own propaganda tend to be very hard to reach.
Anyone who uses the term “gun lobby” is a gungrabber ipso facto.
Ms. Carlson is accusing gun rights supporters of being “divisive”. A “divided society” is defined as one in which there is active & often successful resistance to the dominant liberal political culture.
Oh horrors! To a liberal, the ultimate accusation of blasphemy is to be “divisive”.
Anyone taking bets on gun sales in the bedroom communities around Baltimore?
With the advent of the inexpensive automated milling machine (Ghost Gunner), gun control may be a meaningless exercise. Combined with 3D printing, producing a quality firearm is within reach of the masses.
If everyone had guns and knew how to use them then the crime rate would drop significantly
“Anyone who uses the term “gun lobby” is a gungrabber ipso facto.”
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I was thinking the same thing when I saw this Jennifer broad’s comment.
It’s a Constitutional right, a fact lost on the moonbat Jennifer’s in the media.
So, are more high profile shootings planned?
If the perps are Muslims, will the event be characterized as terrorism or will that aspect be shoved under the carpet (again)?
;-)
I wonder how long before the first news report on record gun sales in the area:)
They sure want guns when the crap starts happening around them.
Just remember the stories Chuck Heston had about the LA riots and his lefty friends calling him up to borrow some guns. He told them to go to the gun stores and buy them. They would say, yeah but there’s this waiting period....and then he reminded them they voted for that.
The safe money says, “Less than a week.”
Just another wtf article.
Another sociologist made the statement:
“There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance - that principle is contempt prior to investigation”
Jenny would have never made it in his classes.
And all the while progressives break society into "groups" to create "problems" the government can "solve" by spending money and increasing control. Divide and conquer - white vs black, rich vs poor, middle class, citizens vs aliens, etc.
On July 1st there will be a lot more “Please and thank you” in the State of Kansas as we become a more polite Constitutional conceal carry state.
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