I am on the correct “side” of this. Because my position is that we should pursue solutions instead of refusing to do so. My position is we should study what works well elsewhere in the world and try to adapt those lessons here. My position is that we should make changes and observe results. And after we see results, roll things back or make further changes. That is the correct position.

And I’m also still correct about my original point: we already ban lots of categories of weapons as we judged to be too harmful. And very nearly no one considers that an unjust violation of rights. This more recent idea that no further boundaries should ever be tolerated no matter what is based on revisionism and sophistry.

“It might not work so we must do nothing” is and always has been a stupid position. One conservatives love to disingenuously invoke to resist any kind of progress. It’s an argument backed up only by the idea that every single slope is too slippery to dare trod and so we’re better off starving to death on top of the mountain.

You seem to think we’re having a debate about what specific gun policies we should have. That’s not the debate I’m here for. The debate I’m here for is that the entire pro-gun movement has allowed itself to be captured by no-compromise gun-nut lunatics.

And you very much have not convinced me you aren’t one of them. You fall into their techniques and pitfalls multiple times here while trying to present reasonable and I think I’ve called you out on it every time. That pattern has repeated itself too much and I don’t want any part of it anymore.

Now Lord give me strength to resist engaging with you on the zombie stat or “obesity-related issues”.