****The effort to dehumanize gun owners****
This began back in 1963. Nov 22 to be exact.
By 1968 most of the MSM were publishing anti-gun articles every few weeks. They have never stopped.
I remember two cartoons from that era of 1968.
One shows an overweight man hugging his shotguns hiding in the basement. The wife says ...”For heaven’s sake, John! They don’t want to take your guns away, they only want to register them!”
The other shows an overweight man cleaning and loading his double barrel shotgun during a riot. The wife says....”Why don’t we just put a SOUL BROTHER sign in the window instead?”
Meanwhile, Herblock, of the WAPO was churning out anti-NRA cartoons like butter.
Cid Campeador, we must be the same age. I turned fifteen the day JFK was assassinated, I got a shotgun that Christmas and my gun control radar stood up then.
Herblock was the most hateful b@stard ever to pen a cartoon. He compared gun owners to Bonnie & Clyde. And registering guns was the prevailing panacea.
The `soul brother’ cartoon appeared in the New Yorker magazine.
Then as now, gun owners are depicted as overweight middleaged unenlightened white men, but nowadays that’s supposed to be a dying minority.
And yes, I did do some 2nd Amendment buying following the Newtown horror, after I prayed for the souls of those poor kids.