Josh Holland with a piece on Alternet. The money graph:
The reason we can’t have a sane, adult discussion of how to cut down on random gun violence is simple: the NRA has hoodwinked a lot of reasonable gun owners into believing that there’s a debate in this country over banning firearms altogether. We’ll never be able to have a serious discussion about how to cut down on gun violence until that group accepts the actual terms of the debate. And the NRA has a vested interest in making sure they remain obscure because the organization represents gun manufacturers and a small, highly ideological minority of gun-nuts, rather than (typically responsible) gun owners.
This is the same rhetorical trick that’s being twisted around the global warming discussion. There’s no question that global warming is happening, but if you don’t believe humans are causing it (no, they’re not helping, but human activity is not the CAUSE) you’re labeled a denier. Guns might be a right, but their possession can be regulated a hundred ways to Sunday, for instance in New York state and city. Nobody is trying to ban guns, just screen the mental cases and violent skinheads from maybe killing people. Nothing wrong with that.