GUN RIGHTS AND THE REBIRTH OF CONSERVATISM
” Now, just three short years later, a grassroots movement has been awakened again. But this time it’s not the Tea Party reacting to healthcare. Rather, it is a collection of the approx. 80 million gun owning Americans reacting to the federal government’s insistence on taking guns away.
It is the more than four million NRA members, and the hundreds upon hundreds of thousands of members of the Second Amendment Foundation and Gun Owners of America.
This movement is broad–encompassing Republicans for sure, but also Democrats, Independents, and Progressives like “Warren” who called into the Wilkow Majority on March 5 to talk about how sacrosanct guns are in this country. He talked of how his support for much of the progressive agenda does not include support for more gun control.”
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In the late 1970s and early 80s, conservatives and moderate liberals found common ground on the economy under the Reagan administration. Many moderates (myself included) became conservatives through that interaction. We can only hope that gun control is such an issue. For a while, it seemed like the health care debate would be and certain the teaparty (little t intention) has not gone away, only lost some momentum. Maybe the pendulum is swinging. We can hope, at least.
We can hope .