Bloomberg didn't lose anything. He simply failed to destroy some of out rights, but he and his evil friends lost nothing. Money you say? Inconsequential to him. He'll simply pass the cost on to the morons of NY who voted for himWhen we lose, we actually lose something. When the antigunners lose they haven't lost any rights. They're not in danger of having their property confiscated or going to jail for violating some tyrannical malum prohibitum law They face no consequences for losing.
I'm going to have to stand mostly corrected, from occupied ga. I hadn't thought of it in terms of "They face no consequences for losing," so thanks, eh?
I think anti-Second Amendment bigots do lose face, as well as momentum in the marketplace of ideas. Are those great losses or trivial? I have a hunch we can make them great losses if we try hard enough.
President You Didn't Build That and Joey "the Genius" Biden are said to be on the verge of trying to recreate the momentum of their recent efforts in anti-Second Amendment bigotry. Will they succed? Won't they? I suspect the answer to that resides in whether they can capitalize on another uncommonly ugly mass murder.
I live in Colorado, whose wholly Democratic [sic] party-controlled government recently went berserk with anti-Second Amendment bigotry legislation. Two high representatives of that party are now facing recall elections, and the governor, the whacko leftist extremist former mayor of Denver, is dead in the water politically. It's too soon to declare victory, and even if we win, these won't add up to triumphs for the American way, but they'll be modest victories.
Will that be enough to warn off other leftist extremist predators? Maybe for awhile. Even when we win, our victories are never better than temporary, and for some reason, it doesn't seem to have occurred to us to stop fighting defensively and start fighting offensively.
Best of luck with that
Will that be enough to warn off other leftist extremist predators?
As long as there are two types of people - those who want to be left alone to enjoy their lives, and the other group, those who want to control everyone, I suspect that there will be anti-guners ceaslessly crawling our from under rocks. Again the problem is asymmetry. There are no consequences for anti-gunners if they fail to pass their tyrannical legislation. I frankly don't know how you would practically attach consequences to them. Boycott their businesses? Most of them don't seem to work. You'll notice those who attend anti-gun rallies don't even look gainfully employed let alone own businesses. Doing what y'all in CO are doing - recall elections? That is an expensive project with no sure outcome. I really hope that you kick those smug liberal bastards out on their asses, but there are always more of them to take their places.
I heard on the radio this morning that 50% of the population doesn't trust 0bama. Really? What's wrong with the other half? Same applies to the anti-gunners. There are a number of them out there who fear freedom and firearms, and no only don;'t want to be free but don't want anyone else to be free either. There isn't anything that you can take away from them that they care about. Maybe REAL welfare cutbacks. Stigmatization in social media? I just don't know.