***”Historically, large majorities of Americans favoured [British English] stronger gun laws, way back to the 1930s,”****
Bunkum. Every time a proposition like Prop 15 in Cali back in 1982, is voted on it is TURNED DOWN by the people.
For those who don’t remember, prop 15 was to register all handguns and ban the sell of new ones in California.
it was guaranteed to pass.
Law officers in big cities backed it.
The night before the vote CBS had an hour special on the evil of handguns.
Polls said it would pass 2 to 1!
HCI was popping Champaign corks in a guaranteed win.
The the next day the prop was VOTED DOWN by a 2 to 1 margin.
The anti gun forces across the US were stunned, so they started looking for other ways to get around this road block. That is when they discovered the Cop Killer bullet and assault rifles, so they made them targets, even though they had said “Long guns would not be affected”.
They always leave out such-and-such to “not be affected”, so as to make it appear to those who don’t think things through, that they’re being “reasonable”. But-first, they have no right to infringe the 2A in any way, even so far as they already have. Second, they never stop coming back to mop up things they left out before. That’s how the left gets their whole agenda implemented, and I don’t understand how after all this time, people aren’t wise to it. How do they think the left has come to own academia, the media, and now are infiltrating the Christian church and the military?
We remember episode after episode like that, and Lefties still proclaim “there is no slippery slope - you need to COMPROMISE!”
To heck with that. We need to do some rolling back in many parts of the country.