Appreciate your perspective, as always! And the numbered list.
K9s wrote: Fri Jan 31, 2020 2:06 pm
1. I don't have to explain NY or CA to you. You live in CA, I don't. And you own at least one firearm. Explain that self-rationalization to yourself. You know CA isn't changing any time soon.
Precisely my point and my provided proof of the slippery slope. We get a half dozen or more new gun laws every year, none get repealed, none sunset.
K9s wrote: Fri Jan 31, 2020 2:06 pm
2. Virginia GOP is primarily to blame for any gun control they get. They could have used the Florida model and
compromised. The VA GOP have been vindictive and misogynistic a**holes to NOVA voters for decades. Too bad the GOP are upset and claiming to be victims now. I have no sympathy for them at all. It should be a warning to people that "liberal tears" have consequences.
There's that compromise word. Compromise would indicate that each side gets and gives something. That's not how this works, so it isn't compromise. I have no sympathy for the GOP, either, so we're in agreement there!
K9s wrote: Fri Jan 31, 2020 2:06 pm
3. I am wrong-headed because I believe that GOP Senators plus Manchin, Tester, Sinema, and the rest of the "conservative" Dem Senators won't vote for AWB or registration? I am pretty sure I am right about that.
No, you are not wrongheaded. I was being general, targeted toward all of us that will vote for a Dem hoping someone else stops the 2A infringement. It's self defeating and wrong headed on all of our parts. It is tacit approval, electing those who campaign on gun control, essentially saying "please, sir, may I have some more."
K9s wrote: Fri Jan 31, 2020 2:06 pm
4. You assert "the endless slippery slope does not ignore history" but provide no evidence. If it were true, we would have no scary guns for sale right now. AWB ended, it didn't expand.
I did provide evidence based on several states. In California, first you could buy and AR15. Then you had to register it. Then you could buy an AR15 with a bullet button. Then you had to register it. Now you may buy an "AR15" if it includes the "functionality" of breaking the action to change the 10 round magazine. Magazine fed semi-auto rifles were almost banned entirely, except Brown didn't sign it (yep, legislatures put it on his desk). Oh, and registered assault weapons cannot be inherited or transferred, so they'll be extinct here in a generation.
Our safe handgun roster now includes microstamping for any new models, not one of the original requirements--it was championed by Harris. The net effect is that any new model introduced does not qualify. Older models continue to drop off the roster as manufacturers stop making it or get sick of paying the fees to keep it on the roster. No new Smiths, no new Rugers, no new Glocks, no new Sigs, no new CZs, etc. Yeah, you can still buy handguns, but eventually, it will be down to a few 1911s and revolvers or the heavily inflated used market (off roster used guns go for 50-100% above MSRP). And now that you've found a gun, waited your 10 days to pick it up, you get a background check to buy ammo (with a 20% denial rate from DOJ paperwork errors). Sounds consistent with
Heller, no?
The Federal AWB sun setting is a bullshit example to disprove slippery and you know it. The only way it passed in the first place was with a sunset clause. Next time there's a federal dem super majority, they'll fix that oversight.
Don't get me wrong, K9s. As I've told you before, if I lived behind your enemy lines, I'd see the world differently. But I live behind my enemy lines where guns are the debil and every effort is being made to make them as difficult to acquire, feed, keep, and bear as possible. And every effort is made to conflate gun owners with the most awful elements of society--a tactic used by anti civil rights activists for ever. This is not what I want out of my federal representation. This is not what I wish for my fellows in other states. But that's what we'll get. Especially if we vote for it.