It is a theory of mine that you can tell how the majority of the population of an area thinks by looking at their elected representatives. Mass people may be gun owners, but obviously it's not high on their priority list or they wouldn't keep voting for hard core anti-gunners like Kerry and Kennedy.
And just because they're gun owners would they have the stones to go into a life or death confrontation with the police to keep their guns? Your ancestors did. The redcoats were the lawful authority of the time, and by the time they made it back to Boston, they were being sniped at by thousands of militia. This in a set of colonies where the total colonial population was less than 12 million. But today? I've lost faith in America. We've become a country of wimpy dependents and not just picking on the northeast either.
I've lost faith in America.
Buck up, man! It ain't over 'til it's over. If good conservatives quit the fight we are truly doomed.