They can try. They couldn't even get the votes to pass the slippery slope to gun registration, otherwise known as “universal background checks”, even when they twisted polls and words to come up with the fake 90% support figure.
I think the unintended consequences of these citizen disarmament efforts are bringing a tipping point, and not in the direction the “progressives” expect. The publicity drives curiosity, and the facts are there for anyone who has even a little curiosity to look for them.
Once people realize that they have been lied to, they come over to the side of second amendment supporters.
Almost no second amendment supporters convert to citizen disarmers. It is pretty much a one way street, and it move in a pro-constitution direction.
I see your point from the same point of view in favor of our Second Amendment. And you probably saw my point about a possible negative consequence of bringing so much attention to the topic at hand. The left doesn’t care about the argument that criminals ignore firearms laws. The left isn’t what most TV viewers believe them to be.
They’re not really the “left” or the “right.” They’re both. There are very few influential conservatives, and the most influential are not conservative at all. They’re influential in both political parties. They sponsor the news. They control the politicians. They decide social policies and have laws passed to enforce those policies. They decide who will be hired or allowed to start a productive business. They’re paranoid about all who are robbed by them and have robbed many of their rights because of that paranoia.
Where is this comment going? They don’t care about whether or not criminals have firearms. They do care about their efforts to outlaw every moral person and every bit of potential business competition. They only want to make outlaws of us all, so they can have others pluck for them as they command. They want slavery, with them as the masters.