https://www.lewrockwell.com/2026/04/no_author/mask-drop-democrats-come-closer-to-saying-lets-just-ban-all-guns/

Mask Drop: Democrats Come Closer to Saying, “Let’s Just Ban All Guns”
By Selwyn Duke
The New American

There’s a popular meme circulating online that relates the evolution of cultural devolutionary talking points. It goes like this:

Stage 1: “You’re crazy; it’s not happening.”
Stage 2: “Okay, it’s happening, but it’s exaggerated.”
Stage 3: “It’s happening…and it’s actually a good thing.”
Stage 4: “And if you disagree, you’re a bigot.”

We see this pattern repeated with many issues, Second Amendment rights included. In fact, say some, we’re already at Stage 3 with respect to firearm seizure. As one commentator puts it, leftists have moved on from “nobody’s coming for your guns.”

It’s not as if, though, the writing wasn’t already on the wall years ago. Just consider what late Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) said about modern sporting rifles (misrepresented as “assault weapons”) back in 1995. On an episode of CBS’ 60 Minutes, she confessed:

If I could have gotten 51 votes in the Senate of the United States for an outright ban, picking up every one of them — “Mr. and Mrs. America, turn ‘em all in” — I would have done it.

Of course, if you’d confiscate all sporting rifles — which are just semiautomatic weapons — why not all semiautomatic firearms, period? They all can be fired just as rapidly.

More ambitious still is New York City’s current mayor, Zohran Mamdani. ......