[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

**** reducing gun violence remains stubbornly high on the nation’s agenda. ****

Reducing gun violence has never been the goal. The total disarmament of citizens has been the goal.

If a reduction in violence had been the goal the problem would have been solved in 1968.

“Today we begin to disarm the criminal and the careless and the insane. All of our people who are deeply concerned in this country about law and order should hail this day.

- Lyndon Johnson when he signed the 1968 GCA into law.

[MrB]

How about this “tone” -

We know your end goal is total confiscation.
We know your means to that end is incrementalism.

We say “NO”.

[Stormdog]

“Today we begin to disarm the criminal and the careless and the insane.”

He was talking about the government, right?

[ridesthemiles]

“Today we begin to disarm the criminal and the careless and the insane. All of our people who are deeply concerned in this country about law and order should hail this day.

- Lyndon Johnson when he signed the 1968 GCA into law.””

Within a very few short years, the ACLU had turned the insane loose into the general population.