Monday, March 4, 2013

Gun Control Underpants Gnomes

It's said that gun control "compromise" is that gun control advocates get less than they would like.*  Well, this got me thinking about what compromise actually means: everyone gives up something so that they get something.

For the life of me, the "gun control compromise" looks to me like this:
Gun owners give up: whatever the gun control crowd is asking for.

Gun owners get: six months before gun control advocates ask for something else.

Gun Control Advocates give up: Some of what they're currently asking for.  This will be back on the table in six months.

Gun Control Advocates get: ???
It looks to me that they don't actually get anything.  They expect that society will be safer, or something.  It won't be - and hasn't been where their nostrums have been enacted.  In fact, they will be unable to articulate a stronger case for their policy preferences than "Gun Control Underpants Gnomes":
Gun Control Underpants Gnome: We have a three part program to make America safe from gun violence.

Gun Control Underpants Gnome: Step 1.  Ban [whatever is currently under consideration].

Gun Control Underpants Gnome: Step 2.

Gun Control Underpants Gnome: ???

Gun Control Underpants Gnome: Step 3.  Profit! End of gun violence!
It's astonishing just how deep this analysis runs, when you really think about it.  Astonishing.  I'm actually in awe over the superior intellect of the progressives.

In a stronger age of this Republic, actual Progressives would have kicked sand in the face of today's "Progressives" for the weakness of of their arguments.  Now there's nobody to do that.**

* Well, I say it, anyway.

** Well, I do it, anyway.

2 comments:

  1. UnknownMarch 4, 2013 at 11:31 AM

    Everyone assumes that when the anti civil rights groups talk about a "compromise" in gun rights to reduce violence, they are referring to the 1st or 3rd definition of "compromise"


    1. a settlement of differences by mutual concessions; an agreement reached by adjustment of conflicting or opposing claims, principles, etc., by reciprocal modification of demands.

    3. something intermediate between different things: The split-level is a compromise between a ranch house and a multistoried house.



    It makes more sense if you realize that they are using the alternate definition.


    4. an endangering, especially of reputation; exposure to danger, suspicion, etc.: a compromise of one's integrity.

    6.to expose or make vulnerable to danger, suspicion, scandal, etc.; jeopardize: a military oversight that compromised the nation's defenses.

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  2. Old NFOMarch 4, 2013 at 12:48 PM

    The ONLY compromise is we give up everything, they give up nothing... dammit

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