{"id":3461,"date":"2011-02-19T10:21:14","date_gmt":"2011-02-19T15:21:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=3461"},"modified":"2011-02-19T10:22:02","modified_gmt":"2011-02-19T15:22:02","slug":"wishful-thinking-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=3461","title":{"rendered":"Wishful thinking"},"content":{"rendered":"

Carolyn McCarthy<\/a> is trying to claim that there’s momentum building<\/a> for her magazine prohibition bill H.R. 308<\/a>:<\/p>\n

“… “Every day another Congress member, another editorial board, another organization and another American fed up with gun violence is standing up to support a ban on high-capacity magazines,” said Rep. McCarthy …”<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Except that’s not what is happening. \u00a0The list of co-sponsors is largely made up of the same tired old bunch of antis from traditional leftist bastions including New York and California. \u00a0As for newspaper editorial boards like the New York Times<\/a>, who cares what they think? \u00a0They don’t represent public opinion. \u00a0As for Joe Citizen, if there was mass public support for gun control then why can’t McCarthy prove this by showing the truckloads of constituent mail Congressmembers have gotten demanding action on this issue? \u00a0It simply is not there.<\/p>\n