Keith- by and large we're on the same page but it isn't necessary to ascribe to me such things as:
But he chooses to excuse the behavior of the extreme left wing liberals who have co-opted the heart and soul of the Democrat Party.
It wasn't part of the dialogue and although I'm sure your perceptions of the liberals devolve from your observations I believe them to be flawed. Your discussion degenerated into the common right-wing "welfare theme" even tho we are talking about social drivers of gun control and gun culture.
Note that the recent school shooting hasn't brought out the (yet) the flood of anti-gun rhetoric. I personally think that a lot of public thinking has changed and this is indeed reflected in the liberalization of many gun laws. No Democratic administration is going to take on this issue now. If not check-mated, they are checked.
There have been huge cultural changes in the past 30 years and our world will never return to that golden age (that never was). And a lot of polarization comes from the fact that poor working people have been severely flukced and their way of life is disappearing.
Whenever there are great cosmic cultural changes (Think industrial revolution) some groups make it and others don't. Culture is supposed to protect people and if the culture is inadequate then the group collapses.
We see that right now when our nation is being pulled to war with Iran by foreign powers who have bought congress and yet we have sexual deviants in the Republican party trying to legislate vaginal probes and others are fixated on "man-on-dog" under the guise of "family values" rather than deal with substantive issues that threaten our security and national sovereignty.
This is a harbinger of collapse. And I will defend 2A rights but in ways other than voting for the American version of misogynistic perverted Mullahs.
Sorry for my rant. One outcome of the cultural shift is that we'll never see re-runs of "Gunsmoke"
