[goldstategop]

Jason sounds more reasonable than your militant gun banner but by not much. Add up the sum total of all his "reasonable" gun control proposals and taken together they are but a Trojan Horse on the way to outright confiscation. And as even he admits, that's what he and his fellow gun banners are really after. The reason he presents all the moderate sounding proposals in his essay is because he knows perfectly well confiscating every private firearm in America in one fell swoop is likely to be fiercely resisted by the citizenry. Thus, if the same citizenry can be acclimated through "salami" tactics to accepting a total gun ban, by the time it happens they'll be resigned to it as a fait accompli. People have a hard time understanding why we resist even little steps to limit our gun rights. If they saw the big picture just as Jason does, they'd fight every gun control proposal that appeared tooth and nail. For when it comes to giving up your freedom, once you begin to slide down the "slippery slope" its hard to regain the lost ground. The gun banners know this and they're committed to their objective, win or lose. Its high time our side did so as well.

[elbucko]

The reason he presents all the moderate sounding proposals in his essay is because he knows perfectly well confiscating every private firearm in America in one fell swoop is...

..is because the rest of the Bill of Rights will need to be trashed in the process. It will be "Gunmetal Night", and the world will be plunged into the second Dark Ages.