One of the great ironies of American culture is that many of the self-styled tough guys who parrot the rhetoric of the National Rifle Association actually are nervous nellies who believe virtually all of the conspiratorial nonsense about plots to take away guns.

For example, all through Barack Obama's tenure as president, the scaredy-cats have bought into every ridiculous warning that the man in the White House spends his every waking hour on plans to send out an army of jack-booted thugs to seize everyone's firearms.

It hasn't happened yet, and it won't happen. But the gun nuts are still afraid. Indeed, fear is mother's milk to those people. They're not happy if they're not afraid.

Donald Trump, guru to the politically unsophisticated, understands this reality. And he's using it to attack Hillary Clinton.

http://www.devilslakejournal.com/blogs/20160509/trump-tries-to-play-on-unreasonable-fears-among-gun-enthusiasts