http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/ ... story.htmlTHREE MONTHS have passed since the killing of 20 schoolchildren and six adults in Newtown, Conn., and already the sense of urgency for new gun-control legislation is starting to wane. A poll by CBS News published March 26 shows that 47 percent of those questioned favor making gun laws more strict, down from 57 percent in December. Thirty-nine percent would keep laws as they are, compared to 30 percent after the shootings.
As is customary, the comments are better than the article. One comment seemed especially so, and I take the liberty of reproducing it in full here, with some emphasis:
rayinmn
9:26 AM CDT
What comes through after all the chatter on guns subsides is that this has nothing to do with Newtown or Aurora or any other shooting. Those are simply incidents which the left has tried to morph into opportunities to advance their anti-gun agenda.
Three months after Newtown the polling in support of more gun control has dropped dramatically. How should we interpret this? Have hearts hardened toward the children massacred there? Have people lost interest in the subject and moved on to other things?
The more plausible answer is that people are seeing the proposals for what they are - restrictions and impositions on law-abiding gun owners who are to be punished for having the audacity to own guns.
The poster boy and girl for this movement - Mayor Bloomberg and Sen. Feinstein - are so repellent to people outside New York and California that it would seem as if they were hand picked by the NRA to terrify the public and thereby sabotage any legislation.
Gun control has become as polarizing a subject as abortion and the sides are growing farther apart by the day since there is no effort being made by the anti-gun advocates to bridge the cultural gap.
Where there could have been thoughtful discussion we now have the arrogance of the left showing its true face by declaring everyone who disagrees with them to be uncaring trolls. And then they lament that no one will join them in their efforts.
Sorry, but the moment on guns is over.
