Gun Control Reform Activism

and the rest are lamprey on the ass of American politics. They are selling a product to people who have confused consumerism with citizenship. Arianna Huffington was a conservative until it became profitable to be a liberal and she founded the Huffington Post. Then sold it for a bundle. It's all the same game. There is an ideology industry because ideology sells.

Guns are just a lever in the culture wars. Ideologues on both sides of the issue turn them into icons to be worshiped and feared. People fixate on them just like any other icon and pay to do so. That's why most of the arguments for and against guns are indistinguishable from the babbling of fundamentalist religion. And when we have legislation proposed to satisfy the adherents of those religions we get, well, what we've got. It's no different from creationism.