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Originally Posted by oldschoolcalgary
not sure where you are getting this notion?
gun sales have only increased with the Obama administration, because of the narrative that the government is going to "take away your guns"... people rail against having background checks at guns shows as somehow, "limiting their freedoms"...
From everything I've seen, a large and vocal segment of Americans want their guns and wouldn't give them up at any cost... they consider it as inalienable as any other rights as guaranteed by the Constitution.
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All the polling I've seen says a vast majority of Americans are unhappy with the state of gun crime and think something needs to be done about it but do not want to lose their access to guns because they need them to feel safe, if at some point in time the sheer number of these incidents causes Americans not to feel safe even with their own guns things could turn around in a hurry.
Even the tenor of conversations has changed recently, gun nuts tend to not even bother with the old stand bys of 'it's the American way' or 'freedom from government tyranny' mostly they argue 'there are too many guns out there so there's no point in gun control'.
That's a huge change that invites the obvious challenge that if the government could take away all the guns they would go along with it.
Remember the last big gun limit, the automatic weapon ban, came about because Black Panthers started marching around with guns.
Once you are forced to recognize your greatest fear, black dudes ISIS will use your loose gun laws against you it gets harder to defend them without looking like you are defending them.