...or we shall most assuredly hang separately:
...whether you’re content to be an incrementalist like me or you’re a balls-out absolutist like Publicola, we’re on the same side. And this isn’t the time to be fucking around with petty disagreements among the ranks while those pushing gun control walk all over both of us.
A-fraggin'-men. The gun-haters are united in their agenda, despite their ostensible differences, and we have all seen they don't give up when they get their "partial victories." And no matter what they say now about not wanting to take guns out of the hands of law-abiding citizens, they have all contradicted themselves at one time or another -- for example, James Brady commenting that "For defense of the home, that's why we have police departments," the fact that the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence was originally named The Coalition to Ban Handguns, the opposition to shall-issue concealed-carry laws, etc. Not the time to be fucking around, indeed. I'd love to see the gun laws revamped overnight...but just as Rome wasn't built in a day, gun rights in the United States were not eroded in a day, and they won't be restored that way either. And if the absolutists vs. incrementalist fight keeps on going, they'll just be eroded even further. Somethin's gotta give, folks...
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