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In reply to the discussion: Bob Costas just did an anti-gun editorial during half time of Sunday Night Football [View all]Eleanors38
(18,318 posts)The gun-control view is and probably has never been a true movement; it is an elitist outlook whose proponents occupy a substantial number of political positions in some NE cities, Baltimore, Chi., SF and a few others. This is augmented by a substantial number of "celebrities," (many of whom own guns or have BGs), and a few foundations with some cash. The biggest element in the gun control outlook is MSM. It serves as the agitprop function. No surprise, then that someone within this elite -- this time Costas -- uses a position of influence to pump up this "outlook."
Upstream, someone decried how this "issue" would soon go away after the Costas dust up. It will. And it ain't the almighty power of the hated NRA. It's because gun control has nothing to show.
It's not a movement, and the pols and most of the public knows it.