Debate about Gun Control

[Eric the Green]

We came very close to passing more gun control under Obama after Sandy Hook. It was very rudimentary regulation, but it would have been some progress. It had 90% support in some polls. The politicians bowed to the NRA, and it lost by a few votes. If progressives win again in the next swing of the pendulum, after a few more middle-aged whites pass on, it's quite conceivable that gun control could come up again and pass this time. It may even be more stringent. I can also see, if so, that this gun control might be fodder among the gun nuts and racist reactionaries for the violent right-wing rebellion likely during the next progressive wave, if and when it comes; but it will fail. I don't know how far another right-wing swing would go during a 1T, but probably not as far. I could be wrong on that; the right wing swing can be pretty strong in an early 1T. It's quite conceivable that another two or three pendulum swings would come, and I don't know where it would settle on this issue.

It could be that guns in America will last as long as the nation itself, probably at least another 300 years. But it could be two or three nations by then, even as soon as the next 1T. No doubt, our ridiculous gun obsession will be one of the deadly things that kills America, sooner or later. The Second Amendment is as much of a poison pill in our Constitution as "three-fifths of a person" and the electoral college have been. In a whole lot of ways these days, middle America just can't get it. Pathetic.