Posted on 04/18/2015 1:23:57 PM PDT by real saxophonist
Forget Michael Bloomberg, Gov. John Hickenlooper and legislative Democrats for now. The bigger threat to gun rights in Colorado is Rocky Mountain Gun Owners, headed by political operative Dudley Brown.
The organization raises money billing itself as more pro-gun than the NRA. It is notorious for launching primary challenges against pro-gun conservatives, replacing them with ineffective activists who reject incremental victories and the art of compromise. The organization clings to unattainable aspirations of all-or-nothing victories. It is the group that nearly sabotaged the recall against former Senate President John Morse, architect of three gun laws Democrats enacted in 2013 at a high political price.
Many leading Democrats, since passing the laws, have conceded they went too far. ...
Rep. Joe Salazar extended an olive branch to Second Amendment defenders. The most controversial of the gun laws forbids magazines that hold more than 15 rounds. As vice chairman of the powerful House Veterans and Military Affairs Committee — where the majority party typically kills minority bills — Salazar has committed to supporting a bill that would increase the limit to 30 rounds. ...
The compromise would resolve 99 percent of concerns about the magazine ban. ...
RMGO political director Joe Neville told CompleteColorado.com the organization will retain an all-or-nothing stance, instructing Republicans the group helped elect to oppose a 30-round bill.
Gun-rights stalwart Jon Caldara, president of the conservative/libertarian Independence Institute, characterized RMGO’s counterproductive belligerence in a series of tweets:
“D-Day was a compromise, not a full repeal of Nazism.”
“Apollo missions 1 through 10 are compromises. Either we go to the moon or we don’t.” ...
If Republicans can’t take a major bite out of the magazine ban this session, Brown and the RMGO should get much of the blame. In the real world, grownups take ‘yes’ for an answer.
— The (Colorado Springs) Gazette, April 14
No quarter. Not slippery slope, no compromises
“....shall not be infringed “ means just that.
Let the incrementalism happen to the left now.
Liberal definition of compromise———”You do what we say and STFU.”
Yep.
If they get 50% of what they want with every "compromise," they get 99% of what they want after eight or nine "compromises."
And, the left compromises......when? Certainly not after a high profile shooting.
The democrats admit they went too far. What other rights do they plan to trample by mistake? Perhaps the right to vote, by diluting the votes of citizens with the votes of foreigners?
No surrender, no retreat! Never give up your guns!!
When was the last time anyone on the Left offered to compromise on abortion?
In the real world, thieves don't steal your rights and expect you to be content with half of them back.
The democrats admit they went too far. What other rights do they plan to trample by mistake? Perhaps the right to vote, by diluting the votes of citizens with the votes of foreigners?
..” The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed” (However, I’m willing to compromise on what kind of pizza to order...)
We are at a turning point. 2016 will tells us if we have to act other than at the voting booth. Maybe sooner.
I dunno. I’m not a Dudley fan. In this case the compromise was to get most of what we wanted, not lose less than they wanted to take.
ALL of them. That is precisely why there can be no compromise.
Compromise is how Harry Reid gets an A+ rating with the NRA
Now the other side has something banned and now has a chip to bargain with. You can bet they will want more than you will want to give up to gain what you have lost back.
NEVER BARGAIN IF YOU HAVE ALL THE CHIPS, or guns!
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