If you have been watching the news over the past days, you will see that general interest in Gun Control has waned (
the number of Google searches on the subject is way down).
That poses problems for the current administration. Yet daily you see Joe Biden or Gabby Giffords in the news saying or doing something related to the issue.
What you are witnessing now is the regular "drumbeat" of publicity, and it's very likely that it's a formally planned roll out of "information" coordinated by press relations people paid for by the anti gun people.
It's called "spin".
This is why once or twice a day, someone with national visibility says or does something to remind the general public that "guns are bad", and "something will be done".
With enough repetition, they know that people in the middle will buy into this since they are unfamiliar with guns personally, and only have the constantly repeated negative images of artificial gun violence and hyper-publicized real criminal attacks to base opinions on.
We need to counter with an even stronger drum beat that shares the truth:
- In November and December, 2012 there were 5 million background checks for gun purchases (one or more) cleared by the Federal NCIS system.
- Our violent crime rate is about one third the rate of geographies with complete gun control in place like Britian.
- Less than 5 percent of all murders are committed with rifles of all types (including semi-automatics). They are not the problem. Criminals are.
- Criminals, by their nature and acts, only respect the immediate application of effective counter-force. Taking away firearms of any type makes law abiding citizens vulnerable, and is against our constitution.
Marc