@SuperDicq @snacks @lucy Yeah, the boomers could have not gone on a coke bender all through the 70s and 80s. It wouldn't shock me in the least if there was CIA involvement as well, just like with crack in black neighborhoods.

It was never going to happen. The people that decided how this country was going to work from the beginning said that taking guns away is how you get controlled from above, and up until the death of the Old West, immigrants were by and large Europeans that got tired of being subject to the local lord's every whim.