That mindset is not compromise; it is appeasement. Compromise requires both sides to give a little to reach an agreement. And compromise is not always possible. How do you compromise with someone who wants to kill you? Allow them to only beat you half to death?
May the shackles rest lightly on his wrists...
Brian D. wrote:"imcrazy"/ Aaron was on my very short ignore list for quite a spell back when, because of that same mindset regarding "compromise" as a useful tactic against anti- 2A extremists. Maybe two years ago I reinstated him, and the other person on "ignore" was long gone from here.
Started myself with a clean slate, because it goes against my nature to block input on here. But the last couple weeks had me second guessing that decision.
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Samuel Adams wrote:If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or your arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.
Imcrazy wrote:...I'm not here to argue my points and convince anyone, I just expressed my opinion but, I think I'll stick to BFA another other forums as I clearly don't fit the mold here..... Adios keep those tin foil hats tight folks.
Yup. BFA is where these comments belong, hence the lack of forum activity there.
I'm not sure if tin foil is now code for having a principled stand or strong rhetoric, but I'll take whatever he thinks it is over what he's selling.
“It’s not that we don’t have enough scoundrels to curse; it’s that we don’t have enough good men to curse them.”–G.K. Chesterton-Illustrated London News, 3-14-1908
Republicans.Hate.You. See2020.
"Avarice, ambition, revenge and licentiousness would break the strongest cords of our Constitution, as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." John Adams to Mass Militia 10-11-1798
No, actually they said "The NRA believes that devices designed to allow semi-automatic rifles to function like fully-automatic rifles should be subject to additional regulations."
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"I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something.
And because I can not do everything, I will not refuse to do the something I can do.
What I can do, I should do. And what I should do, by the grace of GOD, I will do."- Edward Everett Hale (descendant of Nathan Hale)