Here’s a perspective that YOU should be ready to deal with, as someone who is not all that familiar with gun law issues: We gun owners have been taking steps backwards in an attempt to “be reasonable,” etc. since 1934. Only very rarely, and to a very minor extent, have the rights that have been stolen since then been restored. What good is a “right” if it is not enforced or protected in all time periods and across the entire country? My grandfathers COULD have bought full autos at their local Sears & Roebuck for cash, no CLEO sign-off, no tax stamps, no questions - SO WHY CAN’T I DO THE SAME?
Here is a better summary of what has happened over the last 84 years:
Let’s say I have this cake. It is a very nice cake, with “GUN RIGHTS” written across the top in lovely floral icing. Along you come and say, “Give me that cake.”
I say, “No, it’s my cake.”
You say, “Let’s compromise. Give me half.” I respond by asking what I get out of this compromise, and you reply that I get to keep half of my cake.
Okay, we compromise. Let us call this compromise The National Firearms Act of 1934.
There I am with my half of the cake, and you walk back up and say, “Give me that cake.”
I say, “No, it’s my cake.”
You say, “Let’s compromise.” What do I get out of this compromise? Why, I get to keep half of what’s left of the cake I already own.
So, we have your compromise — let us call this one the Gun Control Act of 1968 — and I’m left holding what is now just a quarter of my cake.
And I’m sitting in the corner with my quarter piece of cake, and here you come again. You want my cake. Again.
This time you take several bites — we’ll call this compromise the Clinton Executive Orders — and I’m left with about a tenth of what has always been MY DAMN CAKE and you’ve got nine-tenths of it.
Then we compromised with the Lautenberg Act (nibble, nibble), the HUD/Smith and Wesson agreement (nibble, nibble), the Brady Law (NOM NOM NOM), the School Safety and Law Enforcement Improvement Act (sweet tap-dancing Freyja, my finger!)
I’m left holding crumbs of what was once a large and satisfying cake, and you’re standing there with most of MY CAKE, making anime eyes and whining about being “reasonable”, and wondering “why we won’t compromise”.
I’m done with being reasonable, and I’m done with compromise. Nothing about gun control in this country has ever been “reasonable” nor a genuine “compromise”.”
From “Lawdog” https://thelawdogfiles.blogspot.com/2010/09/ok-ill-play.html?showComment=1285384385988#c6434453110329887129
Exactly right. When they talk about compromise, I notice I always lose something, but they don’t have to give up anything THEY want.
Maybe offer me nationwide constitutional carry. Maybe deregulate 22lr and any lever actions and bolt weapons completely. Maybe define them as non -firearms.
The only reasonable gun control involves proper stance, aiming, reloading, storage and maintenance.
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