Here's how we can get sensible gun laws passed
Remember the comedian Foster Brooks? He was really talented and in the 60s and 70s used the shtick of being a rip-roaring drunk, and did a masterful job of it. Whatever happened to him??
Wikipedia says: Public sensibilities had changed regarding alcoholics and public drunkenness by the 1980s, so Brooks moved away from his drunken character.
What happened? Mothers Against Drunk Driving happened. It was founded in 1980, and in very short order (I noted at the time), they made public drunkenness and especially drunk driving simply shameful. Virtually taboo -- but at least, no longer socially acceptable.
By 1984 they had successfully gotten some national legislation passed, "the National Minimum Drinking Age Act, that introduced a federal penalty (a 5%—later raised to 10%—loss of federal highway dollars), for states that didn't raise the minimum legal age for the purchase and possession of alcohol to 21."
Prior to that Foster Brooks had been hilarious, and jokes about drinking and public drunkenness perfectly acceptable. But then, they no longer were.
That's what we have to do about sensible gun legislation, by which I also mean a ban on assault rifles -- PUBLICLY SHAME all those politicians, for sure, who don't support sensible gun legislation, AND all those VOTERS who don't support it.
This can work. It CAN be done IF enough people get behind it because it happened on the subject of drunk driving. And it happened fast. There's already enormous public support for "sensible gun control" so it's only a matter of making it happen. And an election year is the perfect time to start the process. Make it known how much money each elected politician has benefited by -- and "hang it around their necks," as the saying goes.
It ought to be even easier in today's world with social media.
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