Reply #57: Who ARE you trying to kid?

[MrBenchley]

Every gun show is awash with swastikas and every neoNazi group around peddles "gun rights" at the toip of their rancid lungs.

"How gun control became associated with Democrats I don't know"
Lets see, what happened to JFK, RFK and MLK? If you're really sincere as to seing what the debate is REALLY about, you can't do much better than start here.

"Guns entered national politics in the 1970s. What is called the gun rights movement sprang into motion against a waning civil rights movement and a growing push for women's rights. One organizer of gun rights from the early '70s put it bluntly when I interviewed him. Conservatives were taking a beating. Something was needed to "reverse the flow in the pipes" of the civil rights movement. The social movements based on the rights of women and minorities had bolstered the Democratic Party. Conservatives who had fought against the gains of civil rights and the Equal Rights Amendment needed to counter. Enter the gun.
The beginnings of this movement were quiet. In the early '70s, the Young Americans for Freedom, a conservative political organization, started the Student's Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms. From it sprang the Second Amendment Foundation and then Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms. In those groups a righteous cause and a political vision was born. Guns began their career as key props in a changing political theater.
Within two years, the Gun Owners of America organization appeared with its leadership roots in the John Birch Society. Thirty years later, the group remains true to its mission, a watchdog group making sure the gun rights movement stays on course, fulfilling its reactionary conservative mandate.
In the mid-'70s, the NRA was shaken by the in-fighting that came from this new awareness of gun rights as a powerful political tool. The bipartisan and even apolitical sports shooters lost control of the NRA and gun rights found a home. By 1975 the gun rights advocates in the NRA started the Institute for Legislative Action. Over the years they have continued to galvanize the gun rights movement. Expert political organizers, they get out the vote at every level of the political process in the United States. Today the gun rights movement registers voters at gun stores, shooting ranges and gun shows. There are between 2,500 and 4,000 gun shows in the United States each year. "

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/176458_focus06.html

"And in case you didn't realize it, both JFK and Jimmy Carter were/are "gun nuts"."
Be sure and show us any quote by Jimmy Carter where he opposes gun control. And what happened to that guy JFK, anyway?