William Rivers Pitt | An Open Letter to Lovers of the Gun

[Eleanors38]

9. What the "gun lobby" sees, and what reasonable gun owners see, is

a small but well-sited (MSM, political elites) group of prohibitionists, and they WILL NOT deal with them. You can see these people right here on DU (the very thread you reference, cross- posted in Guns Dogs is a prime example). These folks and their small elite "organizations" largely created the modern NRA (and even more hard-line 2A groups), and now stand in the way of Any reasonable discussion.

It is what they want. It is more important to them than any reasonable legislation, and quite possibly more important than the deaths of the children they say they decry.

The greater question is what the controller/prohibitionist REALLY wants or is reacting to. I suggest the answer is in long-term pent-up frustrations over the decline in the progressive activist character of the Democratic Party and its corporate leaders, and an utterly intransigent Right. So, they have conjured an All-Purpose Enemy the hatred of which is Legitimized, to the point of stigmatizing fellow DUers.

They can't let up. To do so, to reflect, to stand back and reconsider is to admit their own culpability in this destructive and unnecessary culture war. That is what's most important to them.