That’s good. While admittedly most people are clueless sheep who believe whatever the MSM tells them to believe, the design of the electoral process does incidentally make gutting the Constitution a bit tricky. Not impossible mind you, as Obama has shown be going to war multiple times without asking anyone and by running a massive illegal surveillance state, but still tricky.

“Gutting the constitution”? You mean by instituting some version of the sort of controls that were widely accepted as necessary on the American frontier?

Guns were obviously widespread on the frontier. Out in the untamed wilderness, you needed a gun to be safe from bandits, natives, and wildlife. In the cities and towns of the West, however, the law often prohibited people from toting their guns around. A visitor arriving in Wichita, Kansas in 1873, the heart of the Wild West era, would have seen signs declaring, “Leave Your Revolvers At Police Headquarters, and Get a Check.”

A check? That’s right. When you entered a frontier town, you were legally required to leave your guns at the stables on the outskirts of town or drop them off with the sheriff, who would give you a token in exchange. You checked your guns then like you’d check your overcoat today at a Boston restaurant in winter. Visitors were welcome, but their guns were not.

In my new book, Gunfight: The Battle over the Right to Bear Arms in America, there’s a photograph taken in Dodge City in 1879. Everything looks exactly as you’d imagine: wide, dusty road; clapboard and brick buildings; horse ties in front of the saloon. Yet right in the middle of the street is something you’d never expect. There’s a huge wooden billboard announcing, “The Carrying of Firearms Strictly Prohibited.”

While people were allowed to have guns at home for self-protection, frontier towns usually barred anyone but law enforcement from carrying guns in public.

And Mitch McConnell’s looking to make political hay with the people whose bigotries his party has spent the past half-century nurturing and coddling:

http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entry/mitch-mcconnell-campaign-email-obama-wants-to-take?ref=fpb

At the risk of reasonable accusations of being pedantic, I think you mean “polarizing.”

Frankly, I don’t give two shits if obviously sound policy is “polarizing” or not. Emancipation of slaves, for example, was certainly “polarizing.”

Get it done, already.

I’ve been around a while. I don;t recall any more despicable characters in politics than McConnell and Cantor.

But let’s not forget that Obama does not like to upset the republicans. Allegedly he’s having lunch with them right now.At least the biggest assholes among them.

According to my Republican Congressman, my asking him in a letter last week to support reasonable gun control was part of a rush to judgment based primarily on emotion that amounts to “going after law-abiding gun owners,” while the real problems are father-absent households, abuse of anti-depressant drugs (he might have a point here), lack of armed security guards in schools, and video games.

FORCING REPUBLICANS TO “DEFEND” THEIR MOST UNPOPULAR AND OR MOST DESPICABLE “VALUES” IS THE SMARTEST THING DEMOCRATS HAVE DONE IN THE PAST 4 YEARS.

HOW ABOUT FORCING THEM TO DEFEND GERRYMANDERING, VOTER SUPPRESSION, LEGISLATION OBSTRUCTION, UNION BUSTING AND EVERYTHING THAT COMES OUT
OF RUSH LIMBAUGH’S AND SEAN HANNITY’S MOUTHS? I’M SURE THERE ARE MANY MORE THAT I’M MISSING.

..abuse of anti-depressant drugs.

I wouldn’t call it “abuse” as much as “inadequate use of”. Several of the recent “spree killers” were NOT taking their prescribed meds OR hgad been removed from their anti-psychotrop[ic meds by the “mental health care professional” as they were deemed “not a danger to themselves or to others.”

Republicans are better organized, funded and have had a 24/7 propaganda machine running since Reagan. They primary anyone who does not walk the party line. Ends always justify the means. Red states are more fascist than democratic in terms of respecting the popular vote. Small voters can not go up against the billionaires. Only common sense and the horror of seeing 26 mostly children machine-gunned to their death in under 10 minutes may cause the people, but not the Congress, to respond. Even Republicans felt horror, but their conditioning makes them return to their fear their guns will be taken away. Progressives need to force primaries on the Blue-Dog Democrat/Republicans to help make their positions stronger. We need organized resistance and somehow avoid the infiltration of Homeland Security like Occupy has experienced. The US is not a nation that puts people over money or “popular vote” over the interests of the wealthy.

Stopping one’s use of these drugs in the wrong way can be as dangerous as marketing them to the masses as a panacea.

Nicely put!

BUt you know what they say, organizing democrats is like hearding cats.

Agreed. Here in Houston a “doctor” took Andrea Yates off her meds and three weeks later she drowned her five young children in the bathtub to protect them from ther devil. (I sat on a “shadow jury” for the case for a local TV stsation.)

Yes, the GOP is against the Gun Control proposals that the President has proposed, but this Post says the GOP in the House won’t pass these Gun Control measures.
The fact is the Speaker of the House said he’ll wait for the Senate to pass these Gun Control measures, and then he’ll take them up for a vote.
Of course they’ll eventually vote NO, but the word from Leader Reid is that these Gun control proposals won’t even pass the Democrat controlled Senate.