Why?
What I took from that story is that antis won't/can't be converted to seeing the light of truth, because they have chosen what to believe, and will believe it at all costs, even when it is disproven.
Why do you think I spoke (figuratively) of taking the intransigent idiot "Bill" out back and shooting him?
Some took great issue with that, even crying out for moderators to... do... something (silence my speech?) about it. :barf: But the fact remains, antis are antis because they are not swayed by truth and logic and facts. My point was told in parable: it may well come down, one day, to battle, where the time to try to pursuade and convince the other side is long past, and the time to do outright combat is at hand. Have you never heard of the notion of talks failing, of negotiations collapsing?
The anti-gun side NEVER compromises. They take and take and take, and demand and demand and demand. And they lie and they lie and they lie. They CANNOT be reasoned with, because they REFUSE to be reasoned with. So we, apparently, still try to reason with them, still try to compromise (but with them, "compromise" means we keep giving up a little of what we have at a time, and will continue to do so until we have nothing -- or at least, nothing worth having).
You have to see that unless something monumental changes in this debate, it's going to come down, eventually, to a true fight.
-azurefly