Jazz Shaw:
We’ve already seen the sadly inevitable rush to capitalize on the tragedy in Colorado as an excuse to start passing strict gun laws, ranging from Bloomberg to Rendell and more. But as we sort through the aftermath of the disaster and the victims begin to pick up the pieces, is this opportunism going to result in any new legislation along those lines? One study linked by the AP seems to indicate that the gun grabbing crowd may wind up being disappointed.
Once, every highly publicized outbreak of gun violence produced strong calls from Democrats and a few Republicans for tougher controls on firearms.
Now those pleas are muted, a political paradox that’s grown more pronounced in an era scarred by Columbine, Virginia Tech, the wounding of a congresswoman and now the shooting in a suburban movie theater where carnage is expected on-screen only.
“We don’t want sympathy. We want action,” Dan Gross, president of the Brady campaign said Friday as President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney mourned the dead.
As this look at history lays out, there was a time in the nineties when gun control garnered a lot more public support. A ten year ban was placed on certain types of rifles while Bill Clinton was in office and the Brady Campaign obviously felt like they were winning the day. But then, slowly but surely, the tide began to shift.
Obama can not afford to lose the votes that more gun control legislation will cost him. Having said that, he will still very likely have Hillary sign the UN ‘s small arms treaty July 27th, in hopes to get it rushed through and passed through the Senate while the Colorado tragedy is still fresh in minds. Then he can quietly sign the bill without fanfare and most likely lie to our faces and declare that it is not threat to the Second Amendment.
I think is is overconfident to think that far-left gun-grabbing fascists will let this opportunity pass. That makes it twice as important to write or call your Senators and Representatives now and tell them to vote “no” on the UN treaty and any other gun control bills.