Reply #138: Something you may not understand....

[beevul]

People talk about the "kind of guy you want next to you in a foxhole", i.e., a tough fighter. But, such a person is the last person you want in charge of a peaceful government - because his thinking is all about fighting, not negotiating. This thread is full of fighters, not negotiators. There is no way that RKBA is going to de-escalate the increasing cycle of violence foisted on us by the criminal elite running this country into the ground. At best, RKBA is the ground rule for the anarchic state that America will devolve into over the next decade. If you can't even recognize that letting fundies make guns into a "freedom of religion" issue is not a good idea, I can't spend anymore time on this already defunct thread.

I understand your point here, and not to barge in on your convo with Benezra, but there is something I think you don't see here.


You talk about negotiation. I ask you this:

What haave gun owners gained through negotiation? Theres a reason that this thread is full of "fighters". That reason, is that whenever there has been any "negotiation", it has turned into "compromise". And compromise on this topic always turns out to be the exact same thing:

This time, gun owners give up less than the opposition wanted to take, and the opposition takes less that what they wanted to. But whats gone is gone, and the opposition will be back next time asking to take the things they didn't get this time, and some more. Compromise - negotiation - has NEVER been what the textbook definition of the word is.


Compromise - negotiation - as it has been, is a breeding ground for "fighters".