Legal Gun Owners Aren’t The Problem In U.S.

By Ammoland

By Richard Feldman

USA – -(Ammoland.com)- Thirty years ago, national Democrats empathized with tens of millions of Americans on the politically muscular Second Amendment issue cluster.

Back then the struggle for the heart and soul of the gun rights movement was rabidly bipartisan.

Democratic Congressional leaders like John Dingell and Harold Volkmer spoke energetically about firearms and gun rights.

House Speaker Tom Foley and Judiciary Committee Chairman Jack Brooks would highlight NRA meetings as honored speakers.

Even Wayne LaPierre’s NRA predecessor, Harlon Carter, was a former Lyndon B. Johnson-appointed head of Border Patrol.

The gun rights movement was politically pluralistic if nothing else. What happened?

Democrats precipitously abandoned the efforts to craft a pro-gun vision within a progressive, or even a center/left, populist agenda.

NRA’s success in equating gun rights to the “essence of freedom” envisioned by our founders has been staggeringly effective.

Excoriating gun owners for their underlying belief in firearm ownership is now tantamount to being UN-American.

Firearm owners comprise over a third of the adult population in this country.

They care deeply about their guns and the full range of emotional, historical and political identifications that are …read more

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