RE:RE:RE:RE:But Good Citizens In Canada Don't Need Guns, Right ? YGGDRASILL - It's not that the NRA became extremist and corrupt, it's society that became more extremist and corrupt, leading the citizens to feel safer if they were armed should they feel it was warranted.
As for the Mulford Act, it was designed to disarm the Black Panthers who were walking around Oakland "copwatching".
They probably didn't mention that either on Fox.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mulford_Act
Yggdrasill wrote:"Americans have had guns, yes. But not as many as today, and they didn't have semi-automatic weapons with expanded magazines. Until the 70s, the NRA lobbied in favor of and co-authored gun control legislation. The NRA helped Roosevelt pass the 1934 National Firearms Act and the 1938 Gun Control Act. It's president at the time, Karl T. Frederick, testified before Congress that "I have never believed in the general practice of carrying weapons. I do not believe in the general promiscuous toting of guns. I think it should be sharply restricted and only under licenses.” In the 60s, when Oswald killed JFK with a rifle purchased through an NRA mail-order advertisement, the NRA vice-president agreed that mail-order sales should be banned. The NRA again supported Reagan's California Mulford Act in 1967 (imagine, Ronald Reagan passed gun control legislation! Fox doesn't tell you that now do they). But in the 70s, that changed. The NRA became the corrupt, extremist group we know today.
In 1994, US Congress managed to pass an assault weapons ban. Unfortunately it had a sunset clause, meaning it was allowed to expire 10 years later. Mass shootings have been on the rise ever since, exponentially so.
It's not a culture issue. It's a gun lobby issue. The reason this didn't happen after WWII is that the NRA hadn't radicalized yet. "