More Proof That 'Gun-Control'
Activists Just Aren't Thinking

At the science-news website, phys.org, Joe Arney of the University of Colorado at Boulder interviewed his colleague, Chris Vargo, about some new research into the politics of 'gun-control' that Vargo believes explains why "the U.S. public as a whole doesn't consider guns an important issue." Per Vargo, the key problem is that Americans do not think about guns for long enough to demand stricter regulation. In the wake of a mass-murder incident, he contended, the public's attention is held, but then swiftly recedes. Thus, he concluded, "public sentiment" never becomes "strong enough to pressure legislators into taking action."

It would be difficult to find a more perfect example of the core flaw within the gun-control movement's approach to politics than is provided here. Throughout the interview, both Arney and Vargo simply assume that the answer to the problem must be more 'gun control'. They assume that the only important question is why America's legislatures have not yet passed restrictions on our freedom.

In their estimation, the destination is set; what matters is how the media can build sufficient enthusiasm, anger or heartbreak to get the voters there. That the country might be filled with people who disagree with their monomania seems never to have occurred to them. To them, 'gun control' is the obvious solution, and, if it hasn't happened yet in the ways they favor, then it must be because Americans are a frivolous people who consider the criminal use of firearms to be "unimportant," who resist calls for regulation out of childish spite and who prefer to ignore the issue than consider it seriously—none of which is true. .....