schmellba99 said:
You vastly over estimate both the resolve of most people and yhe gun friendliness of Texas.
I think you're making a mistake here that I am fond of making too....relying too much on historical precedent and ignoring a potential large shift in population behavior. I know Gamergate is probably well, well outside the sphere of stuff OB folks care or know about, but it was important. If we had understood just how seismic it was, Trump winning the nomination and then the election may not have surprised us as much as it did. (and be honest, even the most fervent Trump fan had doubts he was going to win before November)
I'll save the snarky some time and post the perfect sarcastic response to what follows now:
Gamergate: The canary in the coal mineWhat was gamergate? If you google it, it was a bunch of angry, white racist and mysogynistic men going after heroic, oppressed women. That narrative should sound pretty familiar. A better summary would be this, found in the comments on that blog:
"I still get a chuckle out of how it all started one guy who, discovering that his game-designer girlfriend was spreading her charms widely, wrote a long blog post about it, letting out the secret that her paramours were writers in the game-critique industry who were giving games high ratings for factors unrelated to the actual games (wink wink).And then he got piled on by people defending her right to lie to him and sleep around because she was a poor repressed woman, and then they got piled on by guys saying, no, she's a ***** and so are these game critics, and then the SJW types decided all gamer-guys were nerdy neanderthals who hated women, and the fun began.Good times . . .Point is, the SJW's went full-bore just knowing that, like all the times before, they would win and vanquish the dolts and reign over the battleground de jour.Oops." Followed by this observation:
"what GG showed was that SJW's operate entirely within the realm of public shame. And when they tried to do battle with opponents who were incapable of being shamed, the SJW's weapons became useless. The pattern was set all it took was somebody who was truly shameless, but on a national stage. Once Trump stood up, said something outrageous, got **** for it, and kept doing it anyway, the spell was broken.". So what the hell does that have to do with gun rights? Well, take a look at the folks from the rally today. Much bigger diversity than the media narrative will show, but if you were going to stereotype them, males under 40 would be a pretty fair chunk of that crowd.
That's not a demographic that typically marches for political anything. It's also an age group that grew up under the influence of video games. A group that may not have cared much about gun rights...except they grew up playing video games. And when they got older and had money to do fun things with, many of them wanted to buy some of the guns/accessories (suppressors) that they played with as kids...only to discover the joy and fun of gun laws. It's also an age demographic that anyone who did serve in the military likely spent time fighting against an irregular force. Then the SJWers came and crapped on their video games too.
Gamergate made a lot of apolitical people sit up and take notice of what left wing politics were doing to the things they enjoyed. It got them involved.
We've got a generation that isn't impressed by the political legacy left by either party. Lots of them are into guns, a fair percentage of them are combat vets, and they're pretty concerned with how not just the 2nd Amendment, but the 1st and 4th are looking these days too. Oh, and a lot of them are fairly convinced that a lot of politicians are corrupt pedophiles who murdered someone in jail they were worried would expose them.
In short:
And thousands of them just showed up armed to protest what they view as unconstitutional bills. Not even laws, but the mere introduction of anti gun BS bills that the leftists have introduced and pushed for in the past.
So yeah, I think this may be something a little different from the historical reaction of "okay, I guess we can't make machine guns anymore because you passed an amendment to a bill with an undocumented voice vote".
I could be wrong, but I don't think additional infringements are going to go the way they have in the past.
