Laz is not a minute too soon with his "FUBC" comment, although outside of this masquerade ball and face to face with BC he would no doubt be more gentlemanly and polite.
The right to bear is a natural right given to us by our Creator, of course, and the only role of the 2d is to place a strict restraint on would be tyrants.\
What possibly is there to negotiate? The same rationale that would dispense with the 2d could be used to dispense with the lst, etc.
You're confusing negotiating with throwing down the gauntlet. My take on this - and I could be wrong and don't necessarily agree with Carson - is that Carson is simply giving the Left an ultimatum. I think politically it's a good strategy and forces the low-information people to realize that the 2nd is not some right "given" to us by the gubmint.
Ben Carson is not talking about negotiating, but challenged the media establishment to “talk about it like intelligent [people] rather than getting in our respective corners and hurling insults”. As for giving “no quarter”, can you own a machine gun without a government license? Can you freely move about the country if the government puts you on its “no fly” list? “Conservatives” in the establishment have given up so much “quarter” that we maybe have a one-sixty-fourth left.
So stop being stuck on stupid! Donald Trump and his team, which includes Ben Carson, is working to change this, and your constant sniping isn’t helping the effort. I know that “conservatives” have disappointed us in the past, but as the Tediban and the GOPe continuously reminded us: Donald Trump is NOT A CONSERVATIVE! And that is turning out to be a good thing! ;-)