Samson's Dandruff

The features of the firearms lobby are really quite simple. By the numbers:

1. A province of the least-evolved, lower order of beings (the south and its graveyards in the southwest) is violence. This is because they are unable to hold their own in discourse requiring thought or activity involving complexity. You will see among them simplistic solutions to self-worth anxiety in their taste for auto wrecks (NASCAR), wrestling, boxing, fighting, and hunting.
2. The herders (Repugnant Nativist Conservative, Naive Repugnant Allies) of this mad menagerie must use sing-song sagas to lure in the cattle. One of the major provocations is the notion that the Delilahs (those who think) will shear the magical locks of all the simpleton Samsons: firearms. 
3. As the cattle are actually a sizeable minority, and anxiety among them is strong, then dues flow into the herders at a right god pace. The NRA is well-funded and threatening. 
4. Those who are settled into legislative and other government seats have as their primary concern protecting those royal trappings. Thus they are attracted to where the most bribes be stored. As there is no hedge fund backing an opposition to the NRA, no member of Congress is bold enough to inject sanity into any discussion on the slaughter resulting from the great rivers of artillery polluting this nation above all others.
5. The oft-stated "principle" of the NRA is simple: a) "Freedom" means the right of a citizen to commit treason by murdering such agents of the government as the shooter sees as a threat, to include AT&F, the Post Office, and Democratic members of Congress. b) Killing harmless animals for fun is worth the by-product of slaughtering forty thousand humans a year. 

Whenever a diseased argument fit only for mental defectives prevails, then that's a general failure which bids ill for all of us. But our members of Congress are concerned only in maintaining their status, and so throughout this lone and lonely land, nothing else is heard but the weeping.