15 Years After Columbine, How "Never Again" Became "Oh Well"

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23. It failed (as it should have) for several reasons.

First and foremost, most Americans don't like their rights screwed with, especially 2nd Amendment supporters.

But that last push (gun-grab) started off as a vague push for "common sense gun control." For most of the push, there was no clear definition, but repeated calls for "common sense gun control." It was only when this failed that the background-check expansion was pushed separately. That is the way I remember it, if I am wrong, please correct me, but the effort was not, for the most part, clearly defined.

Worse, the way the Newtown tragedy was...pimped seems to be the only word that fits, at event after event and on the tips of all the "anti-gun rights" crowd. It just hit me as a sad and disrespectful, and pretty sick thing to do to use that tragedy to try to pry people emotionally to do "something," the vague "something" that the grabbers were pushing offered as the remedy. It wasn't just crass and vulgar, which it was fully, but it was also deceptive.

That deception - using that extremely rare event for their push to solve the "gun violence" problem in the country, was transparent to many. That event in no way is emblematic of the "gun violence" problem in this country. And if they're going to try to deceive and manipulate on an emotional level, which they tried, why should anyone trust them on the issue, or any issue for that matter, ever again? And I don't.

Of course, having Biden out there calling opponents to the vague, "for the children" gun grab the "black helicopter crowd," didn't exactly help.