Gun Control: A conservative agenda? (Reagan, weapons, extremist, carry)

[notnamed]

It's funny how this history has disappeared from the narrative today. Fired up conservatives blaming the recent shooting on liberal gun control laws in California and that if more people had guns on the street it could have been prevented or minimized. But it was their very own icon Ronald Reagan who started California on that path. While "extremists" on the left were exercising open carry rights.

Republicans in California eagerly supported increased gun control. Governor Reagan told reporters that afternoon that he saw “no reason why on the street today a citizen should be carrying loaded weapons.” He called guns a “ridiculous way to solve problems that have to be solved among people of good will.”

The National Firearms Act of 1934, which imposed a steep tax and registration requirements on “gangster guns” like machine guns and sawed-off shotguns—the NRA endorsed the law.

Franklin Orth, then the NRA’s executive vice president, testified in favor of banning mail-order rifle sales. “We do not think that any sane American, who calls himself an American, can object to placing into this bill the instrument which killed the president of the United States.”

Malcolm X and the Panthers described their right to use guns in self-defense in constitutional terms. “Article number two of the constitutional amendments,” Malcolm X argued, “provides you and me the right to own a rifle or a shotgun.”

The Secret History of Guns - The Atlantic

[kwong7]

I think there's a lot of money to be made in both gun control and the fight against gun control, and that money and power (votes) is really what's driving the issue. It's a very polarizing issue that strikes at people's fears and sense of security…whether it's the fear of feeling powerless to a situation, fear of a tyrannical government, or simply the fear of getting shot.

[Jeo123]

1) This is not a debate.
2) There is already a gun control thread going, no need to create more.

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