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Locobot;
It still is. Such things comprise well over 50% of the NRA's annual budget.
However, you have to realize that the pro-gun groups are not the first people to jump on this; they almost never are. Within 12 hours of any mass shooting, without exception, the Victim Disarmament crowd is dancing in the still-drying blood, trying to get their anti-rights agenda into the public eye. For example, The Brady Bunch and VPC used the Red Lake Shooting as an excuse to pontificate upon the need for the Assault Weapons Ban; this despite the fact that no "assault weapons" were used in the incident. The pro-rights folks are responding to the insane, gleeful reactions of The Brady Bunch and VPC, -not- the other way 'round. Anti-rights groups like Brady are notorious for using statistics and quotes which are fudged, taken out of context, or outright lies. Their figured on "X children per day killed" are one famous example; they include everyone up to age 19 as a "child" and throw in justified self-defense shootings to bolster their numbers even further. The rediculous Kellerman "43 times" study has been debunked for over a decade, yet they still cite this work of fiction. They are not above using the victims of a tragedy like this to advance their agenda, even when the survivors of those victims ask them not to ( as happened after Columbine. )
The suggestions of the NRA et al are far from "wack-a-doo," as you put it; as I pointed out earlier it has worked like a charm in Israel.
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