[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

How true! I remember the anti-gun messages beginning in the early 1960s and really got bad by 1969. Worse in the 1970s when almost every cop show had anti gun scripts.

[Buckeye McFrog]

Worse in the 1970s when almost every cop show had anti gun scripts.

I was a big fan of the original Hawaii Five-O, but did get disgusted when McGarrett would go off on his anti-gun rants.

Funny how it all went away once Clint Eastwood and Charles Bronson started racking-up big box office totals with lots of gunplay.

[elcid1970]

The modern era of gun control began with the JFK assassination and Lyndon Johnson denouncing “mail order murder”, got into high gear with the MLK & RFK assassinations, and took off after Kent State and the Black Panther shootouts.

Mortally wounded by Ronald Reagan, the gun control movement would lose its ability to marginalize gun owners as antisocial & dangerous, and now is correctly perceived as a form of fascism.