Are we tilting at windmills re: national gun laws? [View all]

It seems pretty clear that the more central the role guns play in an election, the worse the election goes for us.

Not hard to see why--the areas where we're the most fragile or vulnerable to swings against us on the gun thing are in the small towns and rural areas. Areas that are already disproportionately powerful due to the electoral college and the Senate and the concentration of our voters in urban areas.

The moral and policy arguments for increased gun regulations are self-evident to most here. But, what kind of regulations can we enact while in the minority? Zero.

So, it seems that either we do next to nothing in the majority or we do absolutely nothing in the minority.

In retrospect, Clinton's strong stand on guns in the primary and the general election may have hurt her chances in the general election.

It seems we're better off trying to legislate on the state level and appointing better SCOTUS justices.

Hard to see the argument that what we're doing is working.