I won’t push a button that forces us into a no-compromise position. And anyone who would is the enemy of progress. Is the enemy of the entire human race.
I don’t EVER suggest no compromise. I don’t EVER suggest that nothing should ever change (and I agree that is anti-progress). I suggest that ignoring a previous compromise is disingenuous. I say that it’s valid to say ‘we compromised last year, we’re living the compromise today, why should I compromise again if I get nothing in return?’ And I suggest we should focus on doing what we agree on, rather than fighting over what we don’t.
So here’s a compromise I (as a pro-gun person) would agree to.
You get universal background checks. Every permanent gun transfer between people requires one. Per existing law, these checks can never be used to build a database. The government must provide the check for free (right now it costs about $50 to do the check at a gun store). And there’s an exemption for temporary transfers between known people, and transfers between family members (IE, I can lend my buddy a rifle for a hunting trip without ‘transferring’ it to him and then back to me), and father can pass guns down to son without paperwork).
In exchange, gun owners get national reciprocity. That means if they get a carry permit from their home state, that permit is valid in all other states, just like a drivers license. They must comply with all applicable laws of the state they visit, for example magazine size limits and where it’s permissible to carry.
That IMHO is a real compromise. You get something, I get something. What you get has a few limits from what I want, what I get has a few limits from what you want.
So basically, your position is that you have to get something. The fact that a given piece of policy is designed to reduce crime and save lives and does you no harm isn’t good enough, it ALSO need to materially benefit you specifically.
Sadly, we’ll never be able to negotiate on terms like that. I view the field of policymaking as pointing towards a better future. You see it as a way to win at team sports. Good thing I am not a politician because that kind of compromising I view as heinous.
What you’re proposing doesn’t worry me at all. The guns already walk across state lines however they please. It would change nothing, saying a license in one state is valid in another – so long as that license was honestly issued with training and care and the guns identifiable and registered. So sure, I’d take that deal, but you don’t get to have that be the end of it because work still needs to be done.
Fortunately, there is a political party full of politicians willing to make those kinds of compromises for better policy. They’re the Democrats. They’ll compromise anything and everything to move an inch forward. So vote for them, they’re who you want.
I don’t EVER suggest no compromise. I don’t EVER suggest that nothing should ever change (and I agree that is anti-progress). I suggest that ignoring a previous compromise is disingenuous. I say that it’s valid to say ‘we compromised last year, we’re living the compromise today, why should I compromise again if I get nothing in return?’ And I suggest we should focus on doing what we agree on, rather than fighting over what we don’t.
So here’s a compromise I (as a pro-gun person) would agree to.
You get universal background checks. Every permanent gun transfer between people requires one. Per existing law, these checks can never be used to build a database. The government must provide the check for free (right now it costs about $50 to do the check at a gun store). And there’s an exemption for temporary transfers between known people, and transfers between family members (IE, I can lend my buddy a rifle for a hunting trip without ‘transferring’ it to him and then back to me), and father can pass guns down to son without paperwork).
In exchange, gun owners get national reciprocity. That means if they get a carry permit from their home state, that permit is valid in all other states, just like a drivers license. They must comply with all applicable laws of the state they visit, for example magazine size limits and where it’s permissible to carry.
That IMHO is a real compromise. You get something, I get something. What you get has a few limits from what I want, what I get has a few limits from what you want.
What do you think? Would you take that?
So basically, your position is that you have to get something. The fact that a given piece of policy is designed to reduce crime and save lives and does you no harm isn’t good enough, it ALSO need to materially benefit you specifically.
Sadly, we’ll never be able to negotiate on terms like that. I view the field of policymaking as pointing towards a better future. You see it as a way to win at team sports. Good thing I am not a politician because that kind of compromising I view as heinous.
What you’re proposing doesn’t worry me at all. The guns already walk across state lines however they please. It would change nothing, saying a license in one state is valid in another – so long as that license was honestly issued with training and care and the guns identifiable and registered. So sure, I’d take that deal, but you don’t get to have that be the end of it because work still needs to be done.
Fortunately, there is a political party full of politicians willing to make those kinds of compromises for better policy. They’re the Democrats. They’ll compromise anything and everything to move an inch forward. So vote for them, they’re who you want.