Nushif
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You know, I was thinking about this, an endstate, if you will. Here's my take on our "winning" endstate:
A political climate in which 90+% of the populace is either a gun owner or familiar with the realities of carrying a firearm and where there is no real chance of anti gun legislation getting serious thought.
Imagine the anti lobbies getting as much attention as say ... the "socialist" party in these parts.
Now. The problem with this is that it's entirely undemocratic. I hate to say it ... but if we ever did create this endstate we really wouldn't be giving whatever percentile of the population who really is anti gun a fair voice. And that'd be incredibly hypocritical.
As is, I think the "ideal" state is a political climate where carry in one form or another is legal everywhere (as well as attainable) and where the issue of open carry is contested.
Not because I disagree with it, but because it is democratic that we let the populace decide and actually use their power. Because otherwise it's just a tyranny of the (in this case pro gun) masses.
A political climate in which 90+% of the populace is either a gun owner or familiar with the realities of carrying a firearm and where there is no real chance of anti gun legislation getting serious thought.
Imagine the anti lobbies getting as much attention as say ... the "socialist" party in these parts.
Now. The problem with this is that it's entirely undemocratic. I hate to say it ... but if we ever did create this endstate we really wouldn't be giving whatever percentile of the population who really is anti gun a fair voice. And that'd be incredibly hypocritical.
As is, I think the "ideal" state is a political climate where carry in one form or another is legal everywhere (as well as attainable) and where the issue of open carry is contested.
Not because I disagree with it, but because it is democratic that we let the populace decide and actually use their power. Because otherwise it's just a tyranny of the (in this case pro gun) masses.
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