It took eleven posts to get to that... [even] on FreeRepublic.I added the even C_O for a reason.
Even on FR we suffer from being Politically Cowed. The fear of being ridiculed for making a statement rarely heard is very strong. Timid souls wait for someone else to make the statement before they chime in. In some locales, the wait is forever, and the disarmers advance another step.
Iron Jack didn't wait for someone else to say it. He didn't wait for a bloc to form. It took him to say it before anyone could get behind it.
That's how blocs are formed people. Someone needs to be brave enough to state what they know we be greeted with jeers and worse from the usual suspects. You can't build a counter force until the others who think like you do know there are others willing to break the ice.
So instead Californians want to tiptoe around in one of the worst gun law environments in the country hoping that next year, maybe, will be the year they don't try to pass half a dozen more restrictions on guns.
Perhaps finally bringing this situation to a head with a flagrant legislative violation of the Heller and McDonald decisions will prove to be good in the long run, and we can finally lance the boil.
I'm flattered, but you may be giving me too much credit. I only said what I thought was common knowledge.