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Conservatives on Twitter torched ABC for a Tuesday Nightline interview which promoted gun control advocacy from President Reagan's would-be assassin, John Hinckley, Jr.
"I certainly don’t think the mentally ill should have access to guns," John Hinckley Jr. said.
The NRA's course of action vis-a-vis the 1968 Gun Control Act wasn't capitulation, it was damage control.
While politics plays a factor, the truth is most oppose gun control because of their personal experiences.
Given recent tragedies, some conservatives say “universal background checks” (UBCs) and “red flag” gun confiscation orders (GCOs) aren’t so bad and perhaps we should “compromise.” Ignoring, momentarily, that neither measure would prevent mass killings (since most involve gang killings, not active shooters) and that their inevitable failure will have gun ban advocates clamoring for more,