when good and evil compromise, evil ALWAYS WINS!!!
Posted on 04/18/2015 1:23:57 PM PDT by real saxophonist
Forget Michael Bloomberg, Gov. John Hickenlooper and legislative Democrats for now. The bigger threat to gun rights in Colorado is Rocky Mountain Gun Owners, headed by political operative Dudley Brown.
The organization raises money billing itself as more pro-gun than the NRA. It is notorious for launching primary challenges against pro-gun conservatives, replacing them with ineffective activists who reject incremental victories and the art of compromise. The organization clings to unattainable aspirations of all-or-nothing victories. It is the group that nearly sabotaged the recall against former Senate President John Morse, architect of three gun laws Democrats enacted in 2013 at a high political price.
Many leading Democrats, since passing the laws, have conceded they went too far. ...
Rep. Joe Salazar extended an olive branch to Second Amendment defenders. The most controversial of the gun laws forbids magazines that hold more than 15 rounds. As vice chairman of the powerful House Veterans and Military Affairs Committee — where the majority party typically kills minority bills — Salazar has committed to supporting a bill that would increase the limit to 30 rounds. ...
The compromise would resolve 99 percent of concerns about the magazine ban. ...
RMGO political director Joe Neville told CompleteColorado.com the organization will retain an all-or-nothing stance, instructing Republicans the group helped elect to oppose a 30-round bill.
Gun-rights stalwart Jon Caldara, president of the conservative/libertarian Independence Institute, characterized RMGO’s counterproductive belligerence in a series of tweets:
“D-Day was a compromise, not a full repeal of Nazism.”
“Apollo missions 1 through 10 are compromises. Either we go to the moon or we don’t.” ...
If Republicans can’t take a major bite out of the magazine ban this session, Brown and the RMGO should get much of the blame. In the real world, grownups take ‘yes’ for an answer.
— The (Colorado Springs) Gazette, April 14
when good and evil compromise, evil ALWAYS WINS!!!
“replacing them with ineffective activists who reject incremental victories and the art of compromise.”
Here is the deep systemic problem with compromise. We have what we want. They want to reduce what we can have. Every single compromise with the anti-gun crowd is a small step towards their goal, and away from ours.
Every single compromise is a net loss for us, and a new gain for them.
It sounds like this writer has a political benefactor who is being primaried.
In a compromise,, each party gives up some of what they want. It isn’t a compromise if I ask you for a dollar but offer you nothing, but eventually I settle for 50 cents.
They never give us anything new. In return for their gun show “loophole”, are they willing to end the machine gun ban, or end permits in favor of constitutional carry?
Making a demand, then settling for half, is not a compromise.
Increase limit to 30 rounds? Why stop there?
They’re just trying to save face at that point, having a limit for the sake of having a limit because their imperative is “reasonable restrictions”, whereby they do mean to restrict. It’s akin to Xerxes demand of “just a little dirt and water”, whereby he is offered tribute - establishing that he does warrant tribute, and will rain destruction on any who refuse to comply.
Maybe I’m missing something in reading these Posts.
The “other side” has already attained their Victory.
The Republicans are tying to get the needle swinging the other way and are being blocked by an “all or nothing” push.
The result of All or Nothing in this case will end up being “Nothing”. The damage was done years ago.
All or nothing only works in Politics when you are holding all the Marbles. In this case, we aren’t. You have to walk before you can run.
Just my $.02, your Mileage may vary.
“If they get 50% of what they want with every “compromise,” they get 99% of what they want after eight or nine “compromises.”
Doesn’t matter. When speaking of 2nd Amendment rights, the left understands nothing. The leftists hate guns, they’ve been castrated by femi-Nazis and leftists know nothing about combat.
When TSHF, American leftists will crawl under a rock.
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