re: #468 Political Atheist

Hey you never even showed where I claimed it would be permanent. You made an issue of how important that (IMO) unimportant fact is day to day, week to week. And trying to answer that, we got a whole lot of comments into how likely. Which really just showed (again) where we differ rather than adding anything worthwhile to the board about the topic.

I’m saying that making a gun rights’ argument based on current rulings from the SC is inferior to being able to make an actual practical argument for gun rights, as in, how gun rights actually benefit society and individuals.

Are your stats even predictive? Who knows. Mine? Well my timing rather than stats-The law moves like a glacier. Especially at that high level.

First, I’m not making any predictions. And the law doesn’t move like a glacier. Citizens United was a huge, huge change, and that just happened.

None of that is relevant in any of my comments about the 2nd, self defense or CCW. It just is what it is until such time as it is not.

My point is that if you want to actually convince other people on gun rights, you should have an argument for why gun rights are a positive thing for the individual and society, and not, as you often do, point to the 2nd amendment.

And again, I’m less concerned with gun laws than with gun culture. If we can move away from fetishization of the gun as a self-defense weapon, the law will take care of itself or not even be necessary.