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In reply to the discussion: I no longer give two f*cks about your 2nd Amendment rights. [View all]Eleanors38
(18,318 posts)More important is WHY Congress didn't act:
1). They don't see the controllers as having a solid political base, and they are right.
2). Those who want acceptable change (UCBs) are constantly undercut and discredited by the loud, but well placed voices, behind a keyboard (see above).
Frankly, Rex, most of the control/ban/confiscate "activists" are rather satisfied with their status of moral gate-keepers in an online world requiring little effort, only some sort of purity of belief. They are as dug in as any NRA activist, only with little influence except through MSM. And even they are beginning to look elsewhere for solutions. You can tell: the main dialog now is No one can seem to figure out the motives and characters of these killers. They fled the scene. They planned in advance. They had decent jobs. And in the end, they had pipe bombs and a non-functioning detonator.
Even NPR mentioned gun control as only one of many aspects to be looked at. That is different.