Attempts at shaming only work when you have credibility with those being shamed

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5. It is going to go beyond talking to gun owners. All gun owners at least on this board are interested

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in is guns, gun rights and obfuscation.

My guess is the masses have turned a corner and gun restrictions will become law in the future. It won't take the acquiescence of gun owners. Rather it will be in spite of gun owners.

When the Oregon school shooting was being mourned on this board, a gun owner mocked the mourners. It is gun owners self preservation instincts, their self centered attitude and intransigence that makes them their own worst enemies

I even think this OP is a sign that the worm has turned. I thought that a year ago when gungeon turned to belittling gun control advocates. It is a sign of the pending desperation.

See it is either we accept mass shootings as the norm or we try to do something about them. Society will never accept them as the norm. In every one of these types of situations society begins to weight the pros and cons of a remedy. Right now one of the cons is restricting gun rights. But over time (as more mass shootings happen) the pros begin to out weigh the cons. At that point the cons are less important and become sacrificial.

Another thing in favor of the remedy is that gun owners are on the decline. They are mostly older white men who will eventually pass on. The gun rights advocates get the majority of their strength from right wing politics. There too the majority are older white men. Just the attrition alone of gun owners leading to their lowering numbers will make them becoming the sacrificial lamb more acceptable.

It is inevitable that in the future gun owners will be more and more operating from a point of weakness. Mark it!