Ok. I've heard where you stand on this ad nauseum. You won't be convinced otherwise, and neither will I. The only thing I concede to is the word count, so I'll be concise and stand by my post #37.But what are we supposed to actually do, then?
Yes, there are many, many people on the left who have absolutely no interest in compromise; they want to us turned into disarmed, obedient sheep who go along with their new world order without question, and nothing will rid them of their relentless pursuit towards that goal.
But the fact is that there are also a large number of people in this country who don't know, don't understand, and don't care about our 2nd amendment rights one way or another. And many of them just want to be told that their representative worked across the aisle to compromise and get things done, yada yada. And when the left comes to these people with a bill that they claim is a "compromise" that doesn't take away 2A rights, but just puts "common sense" limits on them, these people, and more importantly the representatives they elected, go for it.
When you have near-equal numbers of people who actually care split on both sides of an issue, then this is how you end up. The ones in the middle who are ignorant and don't care are the swing votes that make the difference, and the reason the left has been so successful is because they know just how to play the twisted game of getting these people to go along. As much as we hate to do it, I honestly think we're going to have to learn to play the game sooner or later, because I just don't see a majority of Americans coming to appreciate and value our 2A rights any time soon.