If the Democrats pass and Obama signs a new AWB would you still support Dems?

[Darque Wing]

189. The one thing they're right about

The one thing that the gun nutters are right about is that the gun control laws - those assault weapons bans and so forth - are utterly useless. They're toothless (full of exemptions, exceptions, and loopholes) enough that they don't actually do anything, which was exactly what the NRA wanted and Democrats have always capitulated completely.

There is no way to keep selling guns in this country without having them end up in the hands of those who would use them to kill people. There is no improvement that can do that. As much as everyone right now is trying to pass this off as a mental health problem, that still leaves the drunk ex-husbands, the disgruntled employees, the road ragers and roid ragers, the bigots and zealots and cultists, the gangsters, the soldier of fortune wannabes, the trigger happy "home defense" specialists that can't wait for someone to step on their lawn by accident so they can shoot them... This is a nation full of immature, reckless people, and we keep giving them guns, with utterly unsurprising results. There is no minor little tweak of the law that will fix that.

And minor tweaks of gun laws, any gun restrictions whatsoever, will send the NRA and their flunkies into full-on outrage mode. We're going to get that reaction even for a weak, watered-down compromise. Look at Feinstein's bill, how many holes and exemptions there are, how little it will do to actually stop any gun from getting to the spree shooter that is waiting to use it. And yet the right will react as if we're throwing them into slave labor camps, because they know that this reaction will, as usual, scare Democrats away from the entire subject - or worse, inspire people to do the whole "centrism is so awesome" thing and end up with yet another flaccid, useless gun restriction that doesn't really do anything.

All to save the Second Amendment. So are we, as Americans, here to serve the Constitution only, or can it ever, just once, be the other way around?