This is all part of the playbook. The left wants to repeal the 2nd amendment so much that they would do nearly anything to get it done. However, the left is much, much better at playing the long game.
So, what they'll do is manufacture support for gun control. Many people who are pro second amendment still want some restrictions on who can own guns, that's "gun control".
Also, the full court press is on from schools and the media. TV shows with themes about how bad guns are, educational messages, kids being propagandized.
Within 20-25 years, the majority of Americans will be DEMANDING that Congress repeal the second amendment.
I think you're pretty much right on.
Owing to a persistently uniform and ideologically tendentious news media, huge swaths of the American people are woefully misinformed about a host of things. Much of what they think they know is
wrong.
One problem, as Alexis de Tocqueville wrote about America over 180 years ago, is that when a viewpoint comes to be held by large numbers of people in democratic societies, it inexorably leads to many concluding that this opinion
ought to be accepted by everyone—no matter how wrong-headed it may be.
(h/t - Samuel Gregg/The American Spectator)But additionally, when it comes to firearms, emotion rules over reason for far too many adults. "Gun laws" are useless in the service of preventing crimes - not of "some use", mind you, but
useless - there is not a single law or regulation that one might promulgate that would ever cause criminals or crazies to alter their behavior. Because the problem is not one of hardware - it is one of human "software" - specifically: attitudes, intentions and behavior.
As for the threat of firearms confiscation, wouldn't that be an effective law? Well, yes. Effective at causing another civil war. And it still wouldn't disarm criminals.
But that wouldn't be the point, would it?
