2nd Amendment Debate Becoming More Partisan Amid Changing Political Landscape

The Second Amendment debate has become increasingly partisan, making consensus seem almost impossible. Gun rights advocates told The Epoch Times that an all-or-nothing attitude from gun control proponents shuts down conversation almost before it begins. “They don’t care if (a proposed law) is constitutional; they will acknowledge that it isn’t,” Nephi Cole, the National Shooting Sports Foundation’s (NSSF) Director of Government Relations, State Affairs in the Rocky Mountain Region, told an NSSF gathering in Las Vegas, Nevada, Jan. 23. “That is frightening to me, and it ought to be frightening to all of us.” Mr. Cole was part of a panel of NSSF Directors of Government Relations for State Affairs during the NSSF’s Shooting, Hunting, Outdoors, Trade (SHOT) Show. He was joined by Michael Findlay, who covers the West Coast; Darren LaSorte of the South-Central region; Chris Lee, Midwest; and Jake McGuigan, NSSF’s Managing Director of Government Relations, State Affairs, who also oversees the Northeast....