Old krow
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Several very intelligent people have told you to back out of this fruitless venture.
I can see why you'd consider this a fruitless adventure. However, it is because he immediately said that he did not believe in human rights, or simply not a policy to argue or debate with an "anti?"
There are people that are going to inherently disagree with this, and there are people that will not. Here's my take on it anyway. This is what age and wisdom have taught me, well, mostly a lot of chess and Sun Tzu. Know thyself. Know thy enemy.
The RKBA is "liberty's teeth." Liberty is American Culture, therefore, RBKA is American Culture. You'd be fooling yourself to think that this is not as much of a cultural issue as it is political. You'd furthermore being doing yourself a great disservice to think that our culture is being propagated the way it once was.
Their camp is now larger than ours. Less than half American homes have a gun in them and more than half (64%) favor stricter gun control. RKBA provides protection from the gun grabbers until a 75% supermajority can ratify The Constitution of the United States. I find it unlikely that a move like that will be plausible in the near future, but it's heading in that general direction.
The media works against RKBA most of the time, Academia works against it most of the time, countless organization and government officials work against it. They also do it very diligently and tirelessly. They have on numerous occasion stated that they would erode it little by little. Everybody is speaking against guns to the antis, who speaking for guns to the antis? The other team is speaking more often and louder than we are. They're waging (and winning) a war of attrition. All they need is patience. In the end, the votes of the American people will mean a lot more than a court ruling. The courts can only interpret law, publicly elected officials make them.
The point being, if we shun or ostracize, everyone that doesn't share our beliefs in what I would consider fundamental to the American culture, their camp will continue to grow and ours to shrink. If people are looking for an answer, they will take whatever is available should the truth be hiding from them, i.e "the barrel shroud." Seriously? And people believed that. If we allow them to believe the garbage that is out there without offering up the truth then they will continue to believe it as the gospel. I'm almost surprised that California didn't put a limit on archery quivers after watching Legolas in Lord of the Rings.
"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing"
We need to either make babies faster than they are or start convincing some of them that an AR15 won't really blow the front wheel assembly off of a suburban at 500 yards. I'm too old for a baby race.
Just my .02