"Now is not the time for a gun debate"

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

246. No you won't...

As a confirmed gun lunatic, you will find any reason at all to oppose even the slightest degree of regulation. Here's the little logical Catch-22 that you use...

Me: Here's a small, baby-step, approach that we could use to limit gun violence
You: Why, that's ineffective and I won't support it.

See how it works? My attempt to NOT do something big like ban handguns altogether gets met with "that won't be effective." So you really leave me with no alternative than to propose something big like banning handguns -- since you've rejected every less-draconian method.

Pretty fucking stupid approach, if you ask me.

Because society is going to reach a tipping point. There will come a time when the next mass shooting will be the straw that breaks the camel's back, and we'll get some kind of highly-restrictive gun regulation. And we'll get that highly-restrictive regulation because every reasonable, incremental step at regulation has been stonewalled by the gun lunatics.

Nice strategy, genius...