Oh, but they have. They saw it the day they passed the Sullivan Act. Gun control is politically profitable for them. In 1911 it allowed them to be openly associated with organized crime yet able to publicly claim to be doing something about violence, enabling them to appeal to both sides. In the 1960's it gave them an alternative to racism to have a minority class of people to hate as a substitute for racial minorities, so they could keep Jim Crow but be up with the times. In the 1980's and forward, it gives them a means of gerrymandering gun owners out of the population of key large cities, a convenient scapegoat for their (likely intentional) failed social experimentation, a convenient voodoo doll boogeyman to rally all their various constituency groups who have their different adverse connotations for gun owners, and a handy sock puppet for fundraising for high profile police departments, legal systems, and correctional departments which feed them the GDP of small to medium countries for their reelection.100 years later and the gun-grabbers STILL haven't seen the light.
Isn't there a quote out there on the definition of Insanity being the constant repeating of an ineffective action...(sic)? Too bored too look it up, but you get the point.
