Quote of the Day
To get rid of those guns requires confiscation. That requires a lot of law enforcement. If you like the War on Drugs or ICE’s immigration raids, you will love a War on Guns. To collect those hundreds of millions of guns will require many more cops, many more home searches by armed cops that could result in shootings, many more stops and frisks on the streets, and a great many more prison sentences for gun possession — a crime that is often under-enforced by blue-city and blue-state prosecutors because sentencing those offenders tends to lead disproportionately to jailing young black men. But if the guns are the problem and removing them is the solution, you need to act as if you believe those things.
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What are you prepared to do? And then what are you prepared to do? If you’re not prepared for the dramatic escalation of heavy-handed law enforcement that a War on Guns would entail, then you’re not serious about one.
Dan Zimmerman
October 2, 2025
The Gun Control Industry Has Never Been Serious About What They’re Prepared to Do to Wage Their War on Guns – Shooting News Weekly
One can make the argument that Democrats originally just wanted to ban guns for blacks to enable the KKK. Then after the party was no longer dependent on the KKK to win elections they kept the gun issue because it would be inconsistent to switch talking points. Ultimately, they convinced their base that guns were the cause of crime. At that point they could continue to get votes by promising to “do something.” If they had actually been able to deliver it would have eliminated a reason to vote for them.
And, of course, a case can be made that the Republican party never wanted to actually eliminate all the repressive gun laws for similar reasons. If the repressive gun laws were eliminated, then their base would have less reason to vote for them.
Hence, for at the last ~60 years (since congress started debating what became GCA68), both sides used gun control to get votes and money from the common people. Yeah, I’m somewhat cynical at times.
Ironically, I think either side winning in a big way would have resolved it to my eventual satisfaction. A civil war over gun ownership probably would have resulted in a new government with private gun ownership a central point of the foundation of government. The pro-gun legislative rollback of GCA68 and all the state and local laws would be preferable, but the issue would probably fester for 100 years or more.
This is part of the reason I have been saying for years that I have given up on the legislative branch. It is only through the courts that we have a chance to get this mess cleaned up without bloodshed or a long fester. Neither major party is really serious about resolving the issue. It is their gravy train of votes and money.
The courts are glacially slow, but it does reduce the bloodshed and put a foreseeable end to the lingering political fester.
Nothing will reduce the fester. Did either Roe v Wade or its overturning stop the acrimony over abortion? Did either Plessy or Brown stop racial conflict? Did Dred Scott stop or hasten CW1?
Like a local DJ said here in Dallas once (Russ Martin): “They won’t go door to door. They’ll go door.”
They push a button at a bank in NYC
“The Gun Control Industry Has Never Been Serious About What They’re Prepared to Do to Wage Their War on Guns – Shooting News Weekly”
War is about setting conditions before you actually go in for the killing fields.
And they absolutely have been hard at it for over 75 years+.
No need to wonder why the 2A is so simple in it’s language, and so ignored by all the professionals in the legal system?
Ever ponder the logic of importing 40 million+ illegals and spoiling them like whiny 2 year olds?
Ever wonder why the criminal caste acts like they have a letter of margue and reprisal on the white society of America?
When a J6er gets more time in jail than many murders?
Tell me they ain’t been serious in destroying our borders, language, and culture to the point that guns are only allowed in the hands of their criminal friends. But not trad Americans outside their homes.
And bought and paid for most of the politicians to back it all up?
Just because they haven’t started killing us through open declared war don’t mean they ain’t serious.
They’ll get there.
Sorry Dan, if you don’t call that serious, I don’t think anyone should take you as serious.
You remind me of Sadam Hussein sitting in Iraq watching 2/3rds of the US military moving into Saudi Arabia on your border. And thinking we ain’t serious about hanging you.
How’ed that work out?
The heavy handed JBT tactics that would be required for actual “gun confiscation” is a MASSIVE wet dream fantasy for a LOT of leftists…
I suspect a rather large amount of “tolerance” exists on both sides.
Were guns to magically cease to exist the Anti-Gun Groups would experience severe, potentially fatal, psychological trauma because they desperately need something to Strongly Oppose because there’s nothing else holding them together. With “Gun Control,” there’s several large groups, and some sort of external funding to support them; Without “Gun Control” it’s a nearly infinite number of cats, each of which is systemically opposed to any form of coordination or unified action.
On the opposite end, were their Nirvana in the form of government authorized confiscation to occur, “Gun Control Groups” would very soon cease to exist, as would all of the individual cats because at that point there would be nothing remaining to either gain or lose so it would be “game on” right down to the very last cat and anyone who supported them.
Basically, the two groups need each other, a symbiotic relationship; the Antis have an infinitely greater need for the Pros than the reverse because of the psychological issues involved – Antis have nothing else, Pros have, well, pretty much everything else. Without Everytown – and its associated Soros-funded organizations – what would be the need for anyone to respond to SAF, FPC and GOA fund raising letters, what would happen to USPS without that bulk mail income? On the other side, without the bi-weekly anti-gun protest marches who would fund the manufacturers of nose rings, blue hair dye and poster board? Hungry orphans in Haiti be damned, we’d be buried under public service television commercials seeking aid for the starving children of tattoo artists in Milwaukee.
No, balance has been achieved and must be maintained, lest the entire Anti / Pro Gun Control Ecosystem collapse in a fiery heap. Would you really want several million Nose-Ringed 300 Pound Blue Hairs turned loose to protest against all their imagined injustices in your life? You’d never be able to order bacon smothered cheese nachos again.