I don't mean this as a put-down in any way. However, all of this huggy-feely idealistic way of looking at things has all of the earmarks of someone who is very young. My opinion is that we become more pragmatic & cynical (read realistic) the older we get; not in all cases, but true for the most part. I am old enough (make that real old) to have seen all of this group-hug-syndrome enough times over the years to chuckle every time you make a post.
Sorry, maybe it's just me, but I don't think so.
I don't think I'm
that young...
(27, if it matters)
If you really think that it's not worth bringing "liberals" into the pro-gun fold, then you might as well enjoy your guns while they last. Because this generation's liberals are all too often next generation's conservatives. And it seems like being anti-gun has been picked up as part of the tide of "progress" in this country. Right along with things like gay rights, and just like women's rights and minority rights before.
At this rate, a couple/few generations from new they might have what they need for a Constitutional amendment, at which point you're
really screwed...not that they'll need it, since the 2A is vague enough that it can be legislated into oblivion without one regardless of how you (and I) want to read it.
So the question, to me, becomes a chicken/egg problem. Are gun control and general anti-gun attitudes naturally part of this "progressive" liberal mindset, along with gender rights, sexual freedom, and religious/racial tolerance/inclusion....or are they being picked up as such only because the small subset who oppose them [gun laws] generally embody the
opposite of what these liberals believe in on nearly every issue?
Or, getting back to the first couple pages of the thread, are firearms rights a polarizing left/right or Pub/Dem issue because they naturally must be...or are we (by which I mean the "mainstream" of gun enthusiasts)
making it so?
Or put in a more fun, overly simplistic, and overgeneralizing way (and I really am
mostly kidding...so please be kind...also take "guns" to mean more the "assault weapon" kind of guns):
Do liberals want gun control because liberals hate guns...or do liberals want gun control because only rednecks like guns and liberals hate rednecks (but they couldn't care less about the guns themselves)?
'Cause, you know, if it's the latter that's something that can be changed.
Well this thread has really convinced me. I'm voting for Hillary in 08, or whatever Democrat candidate gets the main slot.
Center-right/pro-gun is my kinda party.
Join me: drop a tab of acid, tune in to a HillCast and start believing in "sensible gun control legislation." You don't think that children and the mentally ill should own firearms do you? Well the NRA does, apparently.
Hillary/Rove 08
See, and every time somebody makes a post like this (though I did find it amusing, because I'm no fan of Hillary either) somebody falls off the fence on the anti-gun side.