Gun guys have a kind of madness.

via The Truth About Guns from Yahoo News.

Apparently, there will be no ban on assault weapons.
Never mind that Adam Lanza used a Bushmaster AR-15 assault-type rifle to rip apart the bodies of children at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn. Forget the fact that James E. Holmes, the alleged Aurora, Colo., movie theater shooter, fired, among other weapons, an AR-15.
Nor does it seem to make any difference that Jared Loughner -- the man who shot Gabby Giffords and killed six others, including a 9-year-old girl -- used a high-capacity magazine that the Clinton-era assault-weapons ban rendered illegal. A high-capacity magazine also enabled the massacre committed by Seung-Hui Cho, who killed 32 people at Virginia Tech.
The political climate has changed since the 1994 ban: Democrats have cowered before the gun lobby; the National Rifle Association has grown even more extreme; the U.S. Supreme Court has moved much further to the right. And, in the 20 years since Congress banned assault-type weapons and high-capacity magazines, Americans have heard a steady drumbeat of pro-firearms rhetoric that fetishizes the Second Amendment. In other words, the climate around firearms has gotten crazier.
Even before the current debate over more restrictive gun laws began, most political observers knew it would be difficult to get Congress to stand up to the firearms lobby. So it's no great surprise that Majority Leader Harry Reid, who runs from the shadow of the National Rifle Association, slammed the door on Sen. Dianne Feinstein's effort to re-up the assault-weapons ban.
Still, I find myself once again wondering just how bad things have to get before the fever breaks -- before the country comes to its senses on firearms. We're in the throes of a kind of madness, a mass delusion that assigns to firearms the significance of religious totems.

I rarely enjoy reading opinion pieces left leaning opinion pieces. But this one had me giggling like a school girl.

I read it, laughed, read it again and still can't get the smile off my face.

I don't know what conclusion you'll come to once you've read this but I find the fear, the amazement that many don't agree with her opinion and the conclusion that anyone who disagrees must by overcome with a kind of "madness" somewhat pleasing.

What she fails to realize is that 99.9% of the gun guys just want to be able to enjoy the shooting sports, protect their families and not have government infringe on their rights.

Meanwhile, Congress keeps burning up the clock angering gun guys and putting their own members from conservative states between a rock and a hard place.  As much as I want this controversy over with.  As much as I want a settlement of this issue so that gun and ammo prices can go back to normal.  I'll gladly put up with the nonsense.  The longer this is brewing the less time the Congress has to devote to other parts of the agenda.