Any modest steps toward rational gun safety -- even provisions cleared by the conservative majority of the U.S. Supreme Court -- are deemed "tyranny" on par with the British Crown imposing its will on the Thirteen Colonies, which were denied representation in the British Parliament.
What is particularly dangerous about the Right's hodgepodge of bad history is that -- with the nation's first African-American president -- millions of whites are rushing to arm themselves while believing they have some duty to enforce the Constitution, without the foggiest idea of what the Framers were trying to do with it.
Not only is some of the right-wing rhetoric wildly hyperbolic -- comparing a twice-elected U.S. president seeking modest gun safety in the wake of a horrendous school massacre to an English monarch -- but Rand Paul and many of his fellow Republicans don't even bother to get their history straight.
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