Reply #43: It's kind of hard to meet in the middle when your opponent is standing on your toes. [View All]

[X_Digger]

If you look at the history of gun control, from 1968 to about 2000, it was almost all in one direction. The trend was toward more control, more restrictions, more things banned, etc. If gun control were a slider on a sound board, it would have been quite high on the 'control' side.

From 2000 to now, the dial has taken small increments away from control- 2004's expiration of the AWB, 2005's Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act, various states moving to 'shall issue' concealed carry licensing, Heller, McDonald, etc.

Today's advocates for control don't want to meet in the middle, they want to move the slider from 75% back to 80%- a step backward. Moving that dial back is going to be damned difficult at this point.

As I said elsewhere, compromise isn't, "We'll only take half what we want now, and the rest sometime later." I haven't heard a single control advocate tell me what they'd be willing to give in exchange for a restriction they want- all take, no give.