David Frum

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38. It seems the more Democrats push for gun regulation...

...the fewer regulations there are, overall.

For what it's worth, I think it's because the Democratic Party has supported a lot of things that are capable of achieving a reasonable amount of support but that the support is ultimately fairly shallow, causing losses to Republicans. People that don't own guns and never will don't give a crap about how hard/expensive/time-consuming the laws make getting one, and don't generally vote based on it. People that own guns, they do. I live in Connecticut, and the Democratic governor wanted to more than quadruple the fee to get a pistol permit. Gun owners mobilized, non-gun-owners didn't. I think it was defeated.

I'm generally pro-gun; however I don't believe that open-carry should be legal inside of town or city limits unless there's some kind of extreme civil emergency. If you want to do that, get a permit, a holster, and a Hawaiian shirt to cover it up. But it's what we have because of Republicans running things.

With Captain Cheeto in the White House, the dullard Ryan running the House, and slow-evil McConnell in the Senate, bills are going to be passed that are going to kill far far more Americans than the go-to gun-control measures that Democrats reach for when this happens.