The author might be overly optimistic but there's no question that Second Amendment advocates have been activated like never before to battle the gun grabbers.
How the post-Sandy Hook gun control push spectacularly backfired in America
http://www.naturalnews.com/038970_gun_control_backfired_America.html#ixzz2K9mLyLgf
That's true, I came across a letter written to the website VDARE.com that brought something up I hadn't considered.
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A Few Other Reasons They'll Never Get Our Guns—From an Observer Uncomfortable with Gun-Worship
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Anonymous Attorney on February 5, 2013 at 7:12pm
For one, guns are a lonely victorious issue for conservatives. They've lost—or are losing—abortion, immigration, prayer in schools, taxes, spending, marijuana, pornography, regulation, gay marriage, tort reform, you name it. We're surrounded by crime-committing Hispanics of questionable citizenship, Christianity has been chased from most corners, and every third show on TV is now about how cool gay people are.
But the NRA has been a strong defender of the Second Amendment, scaring Congressmen left and right. The Supreme Court has affirmed an individual right to firearms. On a field of fallen conservative causes, guns remain standing. So it's almost as if Conservative America is saying, "You've got to be kidding, right? You're going to whip us soundly on every single issue, and now you want to take away the only success we've had for the past half-century?"
In short, guns are the conservatives' abortion. It's been won. For now.
Add to that the fact that we don't have to discuss race when defending guns, and the incentive to go rabid is even stronger.
And yes, back to race. I got my handgun after Hurricane Katrina. I imagined defending myself and my family against roving bands of looters in the event of some natural (or man-made) disaster. I didn't imagine most of them would be white.
I can assure you the same thought lurks in the back of many other minds.
So there you have it. Guns are seen as the "last stand", ideologically and literally. Pry those cold, dead fingers.
http://www.vdare.com/posts/a-few-ot...om-an-observer-uncomfortable-with-gun-worship