"Retrograde Idiots"

Writing in the Atlantic, Conor Friedersdorf “lets the anti-gun cult have both barrels.” Of course, he was using his pen (figuratively), rather than a gun.” After the school shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, many in the American media insisted that the tragedy should prompt a ‘conversation about gun control.’ These articles were written as if there had never been such a conversation. In fact, the issue has been debated for decades. Given the results, I argued, there was no reason to presume that a new conversation would end in more gun control. That conversation has now come and gone. The result? More laws to take guns away from honest people and NO action to make it more costly in terms of punishment for criminals who USE guns in the commission of a crime.” This is “business as usual” for the “anti-gun fools.” (Bearing Arms)