Guns: how much longer will it take ....

1. He overreached by including ineffective measures, such as a ban on military-style assault weapons. Opponents seized on those measures to doom the whole package of proposals.

4. The president imagines that the GOP is the opposition on gun-control policies, but his biggest problem is red-state Democrats who are convinced he offers them no political insulation from irate gun owners.

10. There are a whole lot of law-abiding gun owners who don’t trust the government.

The last is perhaps the most important factor, too often ignored by the gun-averse media. The NRA succeeds because it has many, many members who feel strongly about the issue and see the ominous hands of government behind innocuous-sounding proposals (e.g. “background checks”). Just as liberals viscerally recoil from government regulation of marriage and abortion, conservatives do when it comes to guns.

I was not using a slippery slope argument.

oralloy wrote:

I was not using a slippery slope argument.

Actually, you are using a slippery slope argument.

the problem with Obama is that he keeps trying to refuse to deal with Congress (and sometimes SCOTUS) by way of making highly emotional appeals to the masses. there is an established order in our capital but this prick long ago decided that it does not apply to him, that he should be allowed to make the rules. this is what Rubin is talking about, she is right, and it has nothing to do with Obama being a D.

Adam Lanza — 5-feet-10 and thin, with blue eyes, according to his driver's license — had become a vegan and insisted on eating organic food. Family friends said he was politically conservative, although he was the one member of his immediate family not registered to vote.

Born in South Korea, Cho arrived in the United States at the age of eight with his family. He became a US permanent resident as a South Korean national.

Five hours later, Pollack updated his story to note that his discovery was incorrect; the 24-year old Holmes in question, he wrote, may not even be registered to vote.

Still, that did not move Pollack to change his headline, which still reads that Holmes could be a Democrat;

How much longer will it take before every law abiding American citizen has
at least two guns and enough ammunition to keep them running for years?

What are your thoughts about the shooters that are Islamist?

Some red-state Democrats ARE irate gun owners.

Should I condemn all Baptists because the actions of a few?