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thatguyoverthere wrote:http://www.cnn.com/2015/10/21/opinions/ ... index.html

...six states -- Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, New York, Oregon and Washington -- have expanded Brady background checks to all gun sales. We are already on the ballot next year in Nevada for a citizen's initiative, and Maine will soon follow. Ballot initiatives, where citizens can vote directly on a new law, illuminate a true path forward. Turns out it's a lot easier for the gun lobby to bully a small number of politicians than to bully millions of voters. After we win in Maine and Nevada, there are 14 more states that have the ballot initiative process that don't have expanded background checks. We will continue our march across this country, one state at a time...

-- Dan Gross, president of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence

https://www.washingtonpost.com/postever ... ?tid=sm_fb

Rural Americans tend to oppose gun control, with 63 percent saying that gun rights are more important than gun control. The country, however, is becoming less rural and more urban. Recent years have witnessed a significant increase in the number of people living in cities, with big metropolitan areas experiencing double-digit growth.

This shift, like that on race, is a boon for gun control. Urban residents strongly prefer gun control to gun rights (60 percent to 38 percent), for reasons that aren’t hard to understand. When gun violence is on your television news every night and police are commonplace, people may come to view guns more as a threat than a savior.

-- Adam Winkler, UCLA School of Law professor and author of "Gunfight: The Battle over the Right to Bear Arms in America."

Bluster? Maybe. Excessive optimism? Perhaps. But no one can deny that we have "lost" in six states already in regards to "universal background checks." Not to mention other new and existing restrictions put in place by other states and even municipalities.

Where does it end? How do we prevent further losses? Or is the clock simply running down?