got it? and after decades of mouthing banalities about how supposedly respect gun rights, democrats are now openly advocating gun buybacks, translation, by the way the road to gun confiscati confiscation. and if we really were paying attention, we would have seen this and what their plan was all along. consider what senator feinstein said nearly a quarter century ago. if i could have gotten 51 votes in the senate of the united states for an outright ban, picking up every one of them, mr. and mrs. america, turned them all income i would have done it. i could not do that. the boats weren t here. laura: the band, but now they feel like they have momentum, the momentum of tragedy on their side and they aim to use it.
president trump, where he conflates all sorts of different things, where it conflates immigration and the second amendment. but the truth of the matter is the second amendment is not under siege. the supreme court is safely conservative. the thing he s been most successful about has been conservatives in the court, on the court. the second amendment is not going anywhere. and polling of gun owners on the whole actually show that people are open to regulations, whether it s in terms of people stalking and domestic violence. people are talking australian-style gun confiscati confiscation. people say this is ridiculous. we don t need these guns.
of us, have been alive, exactly what you just said happened, happened, which is that as the population became more urban and less rural, the number of households that have guns somewhere inside have shrunk and as a result, the firearms industry has had to kind of adopt a somewhat different business model and so has the nra which used to, by the way, stay far away from the industry. they were about rights, not about commerce. not really the case anymore. but the new model they have adopted is that as you are looking at a smaller and smaller set of households buying guns, and you re selling a durable good, i have a gun, my dad was a gun dealer, i have guns that my grandfather had, you are forced to sell more and more guns to the same shrinking pot of people and it makes sense for you to make them more and more expensive which usually means military style hardware, in order to build your business model and the business model also has to include whipping up hysteria and fear that the next