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At the end of the day I suspect most voters have little interest in gun rights one way or the other. When a major event occurs and the media makes a big anti-gun push it gets their attention, but other than that there’re focused on other issues.
We really need to focus less on the issue of gun rights and more on the issue of personal freedom. The same philosophies that result in over regulation of firearms will also result in over regulation in other areas of our lives. I personally believe this is the only real hope that we have to maintain gun rights long term in this country, but alas we see a lot of people willing to give up freedom for the illusion of security.
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A major source of objection to a free economy is precisely that it ... gives people what they want instead of what a particular group thinks they ought to want. Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.
- Milton Friedman
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