[NewRomeTacitus]

You are correct - the anti-2nd Amendment forces never gave up their efforts, merely renamed themselves with innocuous labels (ex: Handgun Control became the Brady Center to Reduce Gun Violence). Vermin do scurry for cover when a bright light is cast upon them.

They don't like pointing out how the right to bear arms protected newly freed blacks from the post-Civil War "riders" more often than not, nor how property owners possessing firearms kept the forces of anarchy at bay during the post-Rodney King riots while those caught defenseless watched their businesses looted and burned.

It's as true today as it ever was:

Without the 2nd none of the other Amendments are worth the paper they're written on.

[billnaz]

"the anti-2nd Amendment forces never gave up their efforts, merely renamed themselves with innocuous labels"

In Arizona there is Arizonans for Gun Safety, a bunch of hoplophobic gun-hating jerks who wouldn't know which end of the firearm the bullet leaves. Governor Butch, in order to shore up her weak right flank, signed a law permitting firearms safety training in the public schools. All the gun-haters, INCLUDING ARIZONANS FOR GUN SAFETY, pitched a huge hissy fit about that.

[wardaddy]

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