- The Development of Gun-Control into an Ideology

Then, in the early 1980's, the gun-control controversy evolved into an ideology. Ideology usually starts off as several lines of continuity of nonsense -- such as the Saturday-Night Special, the easy availability of cheat handguns, etc. -- and, over a period of time, evolves into a system of nonsense. Ideology has the psychological purpose to provide a ready explanation for everything when we don't know the answer to something (such as the question, "Why is there crime?").