I hit the limit in that post but you'll see that one political party has taken the single issue voter response on guns and got everyone on their side. And this is from NRA's advertising to the guy who hunted all his life and owns one old beat up rifle "They'll take your guns away!" to the Neo-confederates wanting to rebel against the government has created a cult that worships the gun above all else.

So where are the anti-gun crowd on it? I used to be gun control as one of my biggest political points, but I viewed the Sandy Hook shooting as our Crossing the Rubicon, and I think many who align in my thought process did the same. When one side hammered so hard "We can't bring politics into tragedy!" and enough of the country backed them that nothing meaningful was passed, that said as a nation we are willing to sacrifice the blood of children to oil the sacred artifact that is the gun. So honestly at this point, why keep fighting that fight? It's probably no surprise that the political side that has some serious problems with it also is the group that has the majority of those without children. I had to keep my mouth shut with our current administration around a pro-gun leftist friend of mine who spouted the same "We gotta use the guns to resist a tyrannical government" because I knew the vast majority of the pro-gun crowd would lockstep with the tyranny... and was shocked when apparently we swapped sides on the gun debate because he said "Fucking take them all for all I care." when he realized that there would be no resisting a tyrannical government while I'm not going to push for any further on gun restrictions, because when they pass, they won't be well thought out protective ones, but ones to suppress one side while giving the other side full power.