I wish Ammoland land would stop giving presumed-Bloomberg-mole Harold Hutchison virtual ink, but I suppose his garbage does drive traffic as outraged pro-rights people try to counter his appeasement cries.
The Zelman Partisans will not join him: No compromise. No surrender.
How Second Amendment Commissars Make it Easy for Bloomberg to Take Our Rights
Second Amendment supporters face one big difficulty when trying to defend their rights. It comes from someone who shares the same objectives, but who seems to think “no compromise” means not giving an inch – even rhetorically, when a different technique might be better. They act as self-appointed commissars, and much of their time and energy is spent on denouncing Second Amendment supporters for being insufficiently pro-Second Amendment.
You’re calling us Soviet commissars, you little [expurgated]? Do you have the slightest idea how [expurgated] offensive that is? Or how [expurgated] insane it is to consider someone supporting human/civil rights to be the same as a rights-violating Thought Police boss for the authoritarian state?
TZP has offered Hutchison the opportunity to comment here before. We’ll do it again, with this challenge:
Name one “compromise” that gave something to the pro-human/civil rights side.
Should he answer, I expect he’ll cite FOPA, in which we gave up machineguns (and bump-fire stocks, and soon semi-autos due to yet another “compromise” by his beloved Vichy NRA), and received a few promises that the evil SOBs would stop a short list of infringements… which they immediately ignored.
Safe passage? Ask the folks NY and NJ are still busting. Ask me why I had to disassemble my firearms, zip tie the individual parts, lock them in separate cases, and chain the cases down, just to feel reasonably safe from the police when I drove through Massachusetts.
No firearms databasing? Ask FFLs who watch the ATF copy 4473s for mass scanning? The ATF brags on that one.
Victim-disarmers compromising with each other (bans with grandfathering, for example) aren’t a compromise with us either.
Come on, Harold. Name the compromise. Email us, and we’ll update this post. Or leave a comment below.
We’re waiting.
-crickets-
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We should retreat until we have no where else to retreat too sounds like a great plan.
Doesn’t Ammoland also publish moronic diatribes by Marion Hammer too? Tired of the NRA apologists. 1934. 1968, 1994, etc… Seems gun owners for nearly 100 years have given up way more than we’ve gotten.
They occasionally run Hammer’s garbage. But Hutchison is a regular columnist.
And yeah, we’ve given up a lot. They only thing we’ve “gotten” is a limited return of the right to carry… in some places at some times; and that was over the VNRA’s objections.
I have a 1982 edition of Pistols of the World. It’s fascinating to look at the older items and see that men — and women — were simply expected to carry something, nearly all the time. Victim disarmers — and PETA — would soil their panties if they knew enough of history to recognize the term “bicycle gun.”
ETA: I feel another column coming on.