The thing is that American public opinion is fickle, and it is entirely possible to envision a time in the not too distant future where public sentiment on guns will change. Heck, public opinion on gay marriage flipped in a few short years after the Supreme Court decision. So while confiscation/seizure may not seem plausible politically right now, there's no guarantee sentiment won't be much different in a decade or so. And I for one plan on still being around then. So taking steps now that will make it easier to confiscate guns a few short years down the road is simply unacceptable. Nor is there any legislative or ever Constitutional guarantee that would make me feel differently. But, I'd still like see if @Jazzhead can make an argument I haven't yet considered.
Yeah, all it took was a couple of decades of bombarding the American public with homosexuality in everything from sitcoms to movies, and the myriad heart-rending agitprop films and other media promoting homosexuality (after, of course, denying the freedom to worship of schoolchildren all over the country and decrying normalcy as 'bigoted'). It just goes to show the Big Lie technique is ever effective, if pursued in earnest.
I think that was an easier sell, because relatively few Americans actually knew any professed homosexuals when that started, and hadn't observed many of the problems those in such relationships had (not all, but many), so it was easier to sell the 'they're just like you and me' canard, something which
@Jazzhead also parrots from lib central.
I have little doubt the same campaign is being done against guns, (HomeBO attacked guns twenty years ago--one of the reasons we don't have that here), but the salient difference is that portraying guns as evil will be a harder sale because 1/3 of the population at a minimum owns them and is well familiar with the hyperbolic nature of those who most shrilly advocate against them, and the lies which are told, the distortions which are used to vilify those selfsame gunowners, their guns, and often Christians as well.
We already simply turn off anything with gratuitous homosexuality in it, won't buy the book and won't see the movie. Gun owners need to similarly boycott studios and their products which vilify and blame hardware instead of the person wielding it. I refuse to support anything which condemns my way of life.
