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In reply to the discussion: It's very simple: If you want new gun control laws, you need the cooperation of legal gun owners. [View all]Chan790
(20,176 posts)Advocating for working with the gun-nuts or compromise herein...is like all the previous times we've been led astray.
Working on marriage equality, we spent years in the wilderness being told (by people who claimed to be on our side or claimed to be dispassionate neutral parties...and in both cases were the enemy) what we needed to do was break bread with the NOM-type folks and find middle-ground on civil unions. My God, what a joke that was.
Working on causes of economic justice, we were told the future was a "third-way" where we worked with management to create prosperity for all...and our own elected leaders from our own party got into bed with management to engage in busting-up the one weapon we ever really had: our unions. We were told, let the slavemasters steal your gains for the good of all. Tax cuts for everybody and a fairer, flatter tax-scale equals prosperity for all. The Clintonian third-way is nothing but center-left fascism where the masters they serve get everything and the rest of us are reduced to serfs.
...I can go on. There is no need.
We already know the destination of justice; we need no guidance from the lost. The road is long and the fighting brutal but with perseverance we will get there. (The advance of progress is slow but inevitable.) It's paring down interpretation of the 2A to the smallest most humanity-and-civilization-friendly interpretation possible where the only permissible guns are hunting guns and guns of some limited functional utility as killing-tools for use in home and personal defense. It's making the process to be allowed to own a gun as onerous as it needs to be to keep guns out of the hands of the deranged and dangerous. It's about eliminating access to weapons whose sole functional utility is as large-scale killing-tools and serve no purpose in hunting or in defense of one's home or person. It's about making the penalties for gun crimes so severe that people willingly choose to not bear arms and people who commit even the most minor infractions face sanction so severe that they serve as a deterrent to use or ownership of guns. It's about making private ownership of military-grade hardware a myth. It's about sanity; the compromises you and they seek are concessions to insanity. The sane future is one in which (certain types of) gun-ownership are conditional-upon-responsibility, legal and rare.
The road is long and we will walk it bloody every step if need be, every footfall forward one closer to the end of the madness of unrestrained-by-sense RKBA. We have no intention of detour-compromising into a loss.