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In reply to the discussion: Michael Moore's FB comment on the UCSB shootings, [View all]LAGC
(5,330 posts)...trying to capitalize off each tragedy, we could really make some progress, just by stopping the knee-jerk response of folks wanting to run out and buy more guns every time the threat of new restrictions manifests itself.
Yes, the NRA is a big part of the problem, but they'd have no voice if not for the very real prospect of new restrictions being foisted on law-abiding gun owners.
As more people move from rural areas into more densely populated areas, they tend to get rid of their guns on their own.
But ring that clarion bell and start calling for more controls and its circle-the-wagons time, and double-down on MOAR GUNZ.
As President Obama so succinctly put it during his 2008 run: " in desperate times)...they cling to guns or religion..."