The Republican takeover in '94 along with the internet and talk radio all helped take the Dem party talking points away regarding guns and gun ownership.
Lott helped buttress common sense with statistical facts.
I recall a strong, intellegnet wife of a freind of mine, who was worried about his pro-gun activities, because of what happened at Waco. I do not think president Clinton actually depressed the number of gun owners through the terroristic actions of his justice department, but he did push many into keeping a lower profile.
Most of the media doesn’t understand (or even care about) the general public. Why would gun owners be any different?
Like many other issues, the “gun” has become an issue along which liberal ideologues define themselves and their reasoning isn't logically cogent, it's emotional.
The Republican takeover in '94 along with the internet and talk radio all helped take the Dem party talking points away regarding guns and gun ownership.
Lott helped buttress common sense with statistical facts.
If anyone thinks gun ownership is in decline, then perhaps they should go talk to the people at Ruger. They had to stop all new orders, because they were a year behind in manufacturing for the orders they had. I’m SURE the firearms industry would be much bigger from the demand, but people are afraid to invest in something that can be shut down on the whim of some politician or bureaucrat at the ATF.
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Silly title. They clearly understand the issue and are intentionally pushing an agenda.
My memories indicate a rapid increase in gun sales, at least up to the 1994 elections. In these parts there was a strongly felt fear that Clinton and the Democrat Congress were working rapidly up to a confiscation or to a banning of ammo or something else equally drastic and gun sales went through the proverbial roof. The price of a functional Garand went from $300 with outliers as low as $170 or so in Fall 1993 to $1500 and mostly unavailable in October 1994. Other models followed similar trajectories. Military rifles were cleaned out of the stores and many models were long back-ordered. In the weeks following the 94 elections the price of that now available-again Garand went to less than $1000 and continued to slide for a while, at least until it all fell out of my focus. I had been in the market, myself, for a long gun and always wanted an M1 Garand which is why I paid attention to that particular item. I think the pace of gun sales did fall pretty sharply for a time beginning in November of 94 but that was surely due to the disappearance of the frantic urgency that had been in in the air.
Point 1. errs a little bit.
It is the liberal terrorist mindset that causes murder, whether the murderer is a gang member or a gang member hired into government goon doing it in color of law.
Liberals want to protect murderers from themselves and empower them into government. Lack of gun ownership means that the thugs with evil intent get blended in the society to an equal access.
But the above detail aside, liberals speak in terms of the rhetoric of the slave, what feels good or bad. The liberal lives in an accademic bubble of utopian consequenceless school campus.