Gun Lobby Planning Assault on Common Sense?

Marie Cocco in writing an op-ed piece that was published in The Saratogian really goes out on a limb with her belief on what the gun lobby has in mind. Her statements might even border on what we’d safely call “conspiracy theory.” She believes that this is in fact a premeditated plan to over turn all firearms laws:

“The gun lobby, if it wins in the Supreme Court, is prepared to challenge every gun control law enacted at any level of government. It will usher in a scary season of assault on the common sense of citizens.”

How is the court case, which even Cocco refers to as “Chicago’s prohibition” really going to usher in this new wave of legal repels? She further makes this bold statement:

“Only about a decade ago, gun-rights activists often claimed that they wanted their weapons in order to hunt.”

I have supported my right to own guns my whole life, and I’ve never really been interested in hunting. People are allowed to collect vintage guitars, but that doesn’t meant they want to jam on stage, while vintage car collectors of hot rods don’t want to go drag racing. So why does Ms. Cocco bring up hunters? And was this ever really an argument in the first place?

Even if it was, it doesn’t speak for everyone today. There are plenty of collectors, sport shooters and other law abiding citizens that are having their second amendment rights trampled on, and all we can hope is that the Supreme Court over turns the Chicago prohibition. Those were of Cocco words, but they fit very well.