Are calls for stricter gun laws really about guns?

[Tombs]

It's totally about control. The government can't force anything unless the people have no means to resist.

Armed resistance only scares those low enough on the totem pole to be affected by it.

The rest will go hide in a hole as the bombs drop, laughing all the way.


When you realize that the gun control fiasco was simply a way to move the sheeple's focus off benghazi, the picture should become quite clear.
Had things been allowed to progress with that, most of them would not still be sitting in the seats they hold currently.

 

[echoagain]

There is certainly some (ignorant and/or foolish) portion of the gun-control community who may truly believe that reducing guns will reduce violence, crime, accidents etc. However, the real core of the movement is motivated by desires that have little to do with guns and/or crime and/or violence. It is all about empowering the 'collective' (ie the state, ie the government) and disempowering the individual. Firearms ownership empowers individualism, it is both tangible as well as symbolic. The 'powers' of the hard-core leftist movement have a deep-seated hatred of anything that represents or empowers the spirit of independence and a refusal to be assimilated. We used to refer to these types of people as communists, but that is apparently no longer fashionable.

 

[96harley]

It is not about guns or laws about guns. It is about greed, power, position, and gutting the constituion.