Actually, The ‘Gun Violence Prevention’ Movement Is Missing A Lot Of Things
By Tom Knighton
Gun rights are sacred rights, forever enshrined in our constitution and upheld by recent Supreme Court decisions. However, that doesn’t stop some people from trying to usurp those rights in a hysterical need to control anything and everything a human being does in the course of their day.
Luckily, the tides have been against those folks for quite a while, at least on the national level, and this has some gun grabbers determined to figure out just why.
Back in 2006, one of the country’s stellar gun violence researchers, Kristin Goss of Duke University, wrote a book in which she tried to explain why there was no mass movement for gun control in the United States. As opposed to mass movements which sought to end the Vietnam War, or reduce drunk driving, what she found after mass shootings like Columbine was the following pattern: “collective outrage, followed by a momentary flurry of unorganized calls and letters and donations from thousands of individuals, and then a quick return to the status quo.” Otherwise, the issue of gun violence would lie dormant between the random, high-profile shooting events.
Goss argues that the pro-gun folks were much more successful than the …Read the Rest
Source:: Bearing Arms
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