Thing is TW, they don't believe that BS any more than we do.
Less in fact, because they actually sit around making it up while we go looking for facts and references, so if you sit down and make them defend it they will just say "But it's for the children", if you're against this you must hate kids.
As Herman Cain so eloquently put it at CPAC they only use 3 tactics, (actually 4, he left out violent attacks )
Shift the subject,
Pro 2nd A = Anti ChildrenIgnore the facts, More legal guns may or may not lead to less crime, but fewer legal guns DO lead to more crime.Name calling,
"Gun nut", "Racist", "Baby killer".One thing I want to comment on that is a little off topic. I'm reading Stephen Hunter's book "American Gunfight" about the 11-1-1950 attempt on Harry Truman by 2 Puerto Rican Nationalists, (Shoot out at the Blair house ).
In one chapter he looks at the psychology of presidential attackers, from Booth to Hinkley,
"You mean to say that when an imbecile walks into a church, office, day care center, or school, stumbling about, almost zombie-like, with gun-filled hands at his side, blabbering incoherently to his next victim, the reaction of grown men and women is to run, cry, whimper, and hide under a desk or pew? The sheeping of America is nearly complete."[/b]
Only 3 have not fit somewhere in that description, Booth and the 2 Puerto Ricans, they were the only ones who, previously normal, popular, and well adjusted, acted for purely political reasons. As Oscar Collazo told a Secret service agent, "I did not come here to harm Harry Truman, I came to kill the American President". It wasn't personal .
The others have all been like Jared Luaphner, maladjusted, loser, outsiders, trying to become important, if only for a minute by commiting an act of violence that is more about them than about the office of the person they are attacking..