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03-09-2009, 07:24 AM
This probably isn't significant in any way, but it is certainly cathartic:
Missouri could drop concealed carry age limit
(http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/missouristatenews/story/29B9964CCECECA0486257571007B3B8F?OpenDocument)
Critics of the conceal and carry law, and even at least one supporter, said they don't like how backers of the original law are now trying to change some of the provisions that helped garner support for its passage.
"The most disturbing part of this is that the National Rifle Association and the gun lobby, once they pass a conceal-carry law, they come back year after year and start dismantling all the important criteria that they originally gave their blessing to," said Brian Malte, the director of state legislation for the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence.
Malte said there's not much difference between allowing permits two years sooner, and the objection is over a gradual erosion of gun restrictions.
"It's really a slippery slope with them," he said. "The concern is where does it stop, at what point? And what else are they going to dismantle?"
One thing we've learned over the years is that the anti-gunners will never, ever, ever keep any agreement. *EVERY* gun control compromise is just a consolidation of gains before the next push. This is, in fact, the Hegelian view of history: they, the good progressive antithesis oppose us, the horrible bad old thesis, and the struggle between them produces the synthesis, the compromise partial control that was politically expedient. But the synthesis becomes the new thesis, and thus must be opposed by a new antithesis: thus, once you pass a gun control law you should already be planning for the next push. :chris:
So what is so satisfying about this is that for once they are feeling the heat, and *now* they suddenly think that agreements are forever, for the first time. How's that medicine taste, Paul? :43:
Odd how we are never the good new antithesis, even though CCW has been spreading for the last thirty years, isn't it? :D
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Missouri could drop concealed carry age limit
(http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/missouristatenews/story/29B9964CCECECA0486257571007B3B8F?OpenDocument)
Critics of the conceal and carry law, and even at least one supporter, said they don't like how backers of the original law are now trying to change some of the provisions that helped garner support for its passage.
"The most disturbing part of this is that the National Rifle Association and the gun lobby, once they pass a conceal-carry law, they come back year after year and start dismantling all the important criteria that they originally gave their blessing to," said Brian Malte, the director of state legislation for the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence.
Malte said there's not much difference between allowing permits two years sooner, and the objection is over a gradual erosion of gun restrictions.
"It's really a slippery slope with them," he said. "The concern is where does it stop, at what point? And what else are they going to dismantle?"
One thing we've learned over the years is that the anti-gunners will never, ever, ever keep any agreement. *EVERY* gun control compromise is just a consolidation of gains before the next push. This is, in fact, the Hegelian view of history: they, the good progressive antithesis oppose us, the horrible bad old thesis, and the struggle between them produces the synthesis, the compromise partial control that was politically expedient. But the synthesis becomes the new thesis, and thus must be opposed by a new antithesis: thus, once you pass a gun control law you should already be planning for the next push. :chris:
So what is so satisfying about this is that for once they are feeling the heat, and *now* they suddenly think that agreements are forever, for the first time. How's that medicine taste, Paul? :43:
Odd how we are never the good new antithesis, even though CCW has been spreading for the last thirty years, isn't it? :D
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