Reply #14: This was never about race.

[Atypical Liberal]

Go back to your friends (if you're still in touch with them) who were hyperventilating about teh Scary Black Man who was going to confiscate their guns, and ask them how scared they still are.

The fear about restrictions on firearm ownership has nothing to do with race for most people.

It is about past history.

The last time there was a Democratic President (Bill Clinton), he gave us the Assault Weapons Ban. Reinstating this ban is part of the Democratic Party Platform. It was also part of President Obama's campaign pledge. It is still up on www.change.gov under urban policy. It was only removed from www.whitehouse.gov a few months into his presidency. President Obama's Attorney General, Eric Holder, floated the idea of a new Assault Weapons Ban just a couple of months into Obama's presidency, though he was roundly shouted down by the then Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and others, who borrowed the NRA line of, "Let's just enforce the laws we have."

All of this, none of which was about race, was sufficient to scare gun owners into buying while they knew they could.