At a glance, my father looks like the last guy who’d ever want a gun. He is Jewish, an immigrant, a politically liberal city dweller. He didn’t grow up around guns. Most of all, he believed America needed stricter gun control laws. In fact, on many occasions, my father had referred to gun owners as crazy. But I had spent the previous five years studying American gun culture, and I had seen first hand that my father’s position was not so unusual. [More]
Go ahead and make my points for me.
If your father had a clue, he’d be the first guy to want a gun.
With the newsraper of record backing off of confiscation demands and grudgingly mentioning (but not accepting) self-defense utility, I’m starting to sense a pattern here, like with our bud G. Anteus. The grabbers are betting on SCOTUS taking ARs off the table (for now) and are setting up the field for a legislative fallback agenda until such time as they can oust Republican majorities and get back on plan.
