A message to those who wish to ban or restrict guns: Give up.

[TheKentuckian]

299. We can't remove an anti-trust exemption or stop food stamp cuts or even keep critical firefighters

But this one we got, huh? The wealth differential is still growing. The bottom 80% of us have significantly less than 10% of the wealth and the bottom FIFTY percent barely ONE PERCENT. That needle is fucking moving backward but for this statistically null fetish we've got all the zeal in the world and are borrowing moral authority from everywhere from the anti-slavery movement and regulating banks (another thing we either cannot do or do so poorly that it enhances their hand).

Probably right, we do a fair job of reducing rights but are piss poor at advancing and maintaining them anymore.
We have become adept at using polling to justify abandoning beneficial policies for the many and better at ignoring the polls when support is great for massively beneficial laws.

I figure the anti's are being pushed and resourced by wealthy authoritarians supposedly on both sides of the aisle, hence it was the one "progressive" leg the Turd Way was always willing to stand on and swim against the current no matter what the cost (which is completely outside the norm for about any other issue).