WOW! That is a pretty dark response. There has definitely been an increase of acceptance of using violence in the name of the progressive agenda.
I, personally, think the Republicans have gone too far already. I was having a conversation a few weeks ago with a gun control advocate about background checks being an infringement of the right to privacy and presumption of innocence. I agreed with him that they make things slightly more difficult on the "bad guys" trying to buy a gun, but they also make it difficult on those of us that have never committed a crime. It isn't fair that we're required to request permission from, and prove our innocence to, our government in order to purchase an item.
More innocent people are affected by these checks than criminals. The NICS is so ineffective that the gun control advocates don't even know it's there. In my opinion, background checks are a sacrifice of freedom for the illusion of safety.
You got that right. Why do people think that its ok to keep the innocent burdened to make governments job "easier". The left has gotten rid of some horrendous laws based on lies like that, but when "gun control" comes up they forget how to use reason?
I blame the progressive movement and how it has pushed classical liberalism out of the Democratic Party to replace it with socialist ideology. The way I see it, it is happening to conservatism in the Republican Party as well. I think more Republicans recognize it as "the establishment". The desire the Republican voters had to get away from that was obvious with the absolute failure of Jeb Bush in the primaries.