Not being a "movement" with extensive grass-roots membership, wide-scale donor base, and a high level of activism and militancy, the gun control "outlook" must depend on positioning itself in institutional frameworks: Some academic circles (not so much after Bellesiles fiasco); big-city bureaus of the NE cities, Chicago, SF; the Party; and on, most important, mainstream media. From these positions, the gun control outlook can continue some kind of presence in policy, ideology and legislative activity, and on Considerable cost-free advancement of its beliefs through MSM. Unfortunately, this kind of elite positioning can result in more authoritarian approaches, to which the thread alludes. So, pro-2A DUers must be on-guard for simple banishment by bureaucratic fiat, something virtually all other groups and interests in DU don't have to worry about.
NOTE: the conversation linked to was between a group host, and an owner of DU. Further, some anti-gun folks have expressed a desire to ban ALL presence and disscussion of ANYTHING they interpret as "pro-gun." As has been dealt with many times in gun threads, there is a culture war being waged by controllers. My opinions.
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