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Old July 19, 2013, 04:15 PM   #2
Tom Servo
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Let's skip the liberal/conservative stuff, especially with the next Presidential election three years away.

What needs to happen is not so much political as it is cultural. To the general public, machine guns are the rhetorical third rail. Look at how easy it is for the media to deliberately confuse semiautomatic rifles with machine guns.

Any discussion with a neutral or skeptical audience will instantly change in tone when someone brings the subject up. It's perception that has to change.

How do we get there? I don't think it'll happen in the near future. Once the contours of the 2A are hashed out by the courts (and we're just at the beginning there), we might be able to start the ball rolling, but it's hard to predict. Even under the best of circumstances, I wouldn't expect to see repeal or significant change within the next couple of decades.
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