These are very real fears. And often justified...
Stop the proliferation of guns by ending the fear Connservative opinion, discussing fear.
First off, no idea if this James C. Salwitz is a Conservative or not. Nothing in his bio suggests that he is a conservative or liberal. Second, he's an oncologist. A cancer doctor. He has no expertise in psychology. His article is nothing more than an appeal to emotional fallacy. He gives no facts, much less any evidence to what he DOES say.
This says nothing about people being in fear of talking out against guns.
First: The Center for American Progress is your typical "progressive" group that has always been anti-gun. Much of what they say MUST be taken with a handful of salt
at best. They like to lie. Alot. For example:
From the article you provided:
Yet under federal law and the law in most states, individuals who have been convicted of hate crimes remain free to buy and possess guns.
This is a straight out lie as anyone convicted of a hate crime (which is a felony just by itself) is normally also convicted of other crimes in conjunction with the charge of "hate crime". And by federal law anyone that has a felony record may not legally own guns. Period.
This says nothing about people being in fear of talking out against guns.
This one mainly talks about hate groups, and the decline of trust in the government, possibly as an excuse as to why hate groups have expanded their numbers.
This says nothing about people being in fear of talking out against guns.
Judging from this guy's statements on the Founders I'd say he's rather anti-gun. Be that as it may though this was written right after the Sandy Hook incident. A time when many were so offended by what happened that they let their emotions run away instead of using actual logic. Like the fact that the weapons used were legally owned by the mother and stolen from her after she was killed by her son. Nothing that any of the "common sense" idea's he mentions would have stopped in the slightest.
This says nothing about people being in fear of talking out against guns.
This is nothing more than a summary of what's in a book. Without reading the book there's nothing to say about it. Can't even tell you whether it talks about your claim or not. Though judging from the questions the book is supposed to talk about I'd say no, it doesn't.
This is about a boy that was shot by a stray bullet shot by someone having an argument with another person several blocks away. This says nothing about people being in fear of talking out against guns.
This is nothing more than someones take on the NRA. This says nothing about people being in fear of talking out against guns.
http://jpfo.org/articles-assd02/why-jews-hate-guns.htm (This is actually a pro-amendment 2 article that discusses the fears).
Nothing in this discusses the fear to speak out against guns because they might be shot.
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Nothing in this article even mentions guns. Much less the fear about talking out against guns.
So, nothing that you have presented here says anything about people living in fear to speak out for gun control because they're afraid they'll get shot.