After Newtown, focus of U.S. gun control battle shifts to states

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1. Frankly, the states are where it's at and has been for many years.

And it took this long to discover it? I wonder if Boomie is really trying to build some future organization for a future presidential run.

Bloomberg is a prohibitionist, and most "gun control" is based on prohibitionism. The "common sense" proposals are embraced only after another tired run at prohibition is attempted and fails. This approach has been used for decades, and does Nothing on behalf of the gun control outlooks particular proposal, and further, self-poisons the outlooks over all credibility. This is manifest.

The shotgun approach reveals why gun-control is really about gun prohibition: Ban proposals are slung out in a directions with little meaningful attachment to a social problem. How does a magazine limit stop a mass killing when several "legal" mags are put in a school pack? Think Va Tech. How does a ban on some amorphously-defined "assault weapon" stop someone using an inexpensive and technologically hoary weapon like a pump shotgun? Think Navy Yard. And how do these scatter shot ideas address day-to-day crime? Do these controllers really care?

Transparent motives. Bad policy.

At least the center-right Bloomberg has discovered the 50 states. I do note the Third Way "think tank" comments. Does this spokesperson take a stand? Characteristically, probably not. But his comments do suggest what I suspect is the greater concentration of the elitist gun control outlook in the Party: Third Way centrists.