Gun Control & RKBA
In reply to the discussion: Can any PRO Gun-Control person on this forum name one Gun Control WIN in the last 3 years? [View all]SteveW
(754 posts)I'm not being sucked into any situation. There were plenty of guns when I war growing up, and in terms of both raw numbers and percentages of people owning guns, far fewer than we have now. I've never worried about that. I worry about an increasingly authoritarian government in which both parties have agreed to the hard-wiring of the Unitary Presidency, which depends on PermaWar. Respectfully, you should be as well.
Please, don't lecture me on "...announcing and cheering for [the 'need' to carry] on public websites, under the impression that you are promoting civil rights..." I will from time-to-time chime in on the relative merits of concealed vs. open-carry, but in either case, it is a constitutional right. And it is a recognized civil right.
Any stage-setting for losing this civil right will come from the Right; the few Democratic centrists who still cling to the gun-control outlook can never overcome those who defend 2A, only the Far Right can. They will do so only when they think greater authoritarianism will give them the power to effect such a confiscation/ban. Even then, it will be a problem for them.