wow...
Sometime I'm bad at following popular new outlets, because well... puke... but then I read this an am like, ok I see why people are fired up.
I found this line interesting.
"When they use phrases like, 'I’ll give you my gun when you pry it from my cold, dead hands’ on bumper stickers, they are saying reasoned debate about public safety should be met with violence.'"
On the one hand, I get the moto, because you are trying to deprive someone of a right through presumed force. Honestly I can see Huey Newton saying this as much as Charlton Heston, there were probably similar slogans/statements floated by the Panther's when 2nd amendment freedom was first curtailed by Regan when he repealed the Mulford act and made open carrying loaded weapons in public illegal in CA.
On the other hand, I kinda agree with the author, we live in a democracy, and could vote to amended the constitution to get rid of the second amendment all together. The american experiment works because we have all agreed to follow laws, this moto does seem to suggest that laws don't matter and any attempted to alter our current paradigm will be met with violence, even if that paradigm is done via popular vote and consensus. You could argue that the slogan is un-american with that interpretation.
I wish some adults could take over the NRA, would like to drop the bs and be a better advocacy organization. At this point that house probably needs to be razed, and a new group needs to occupy that space.
