Gun groups have been circulating for months what they call the “Biden plan to destroy the Second Amendment.” They claim that this is the fateful step that could start the slide to disarmament, and then genocide.
“This is the price of freedom,” former, disgraced Fox News anchor Bill O’Reilly wrote Monday on his own website hours after the Las Vegas country music concert shooting.
The only thing stopping real gun reform in the United States is a paranoid fear that some future, tyrannical regime would seize Americans’ guns and impose a totalitarian state.
After the horror of the Newtown shooting, gun reform advocates expected to finally see a change. Yet six months later nothing had changed.
Fresh from its biggest legislative victory in years, the gun lobby is gearing up for its next project: backing their congressional champions in the 2014 midterm elections.
