Trey Gowdy’s Remarks on Gun Control: What He Said — and What He Didn’t [More]
We heard what he said, and we didn’t hear “shall not be infringed.
I don’t think it helps.
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Gowdy seemed to say that we need to have a conversation. not a shouting match, not a “struggle session”, where the Left gets to tell us what kind of guns we can have, how many, and how and where we can carry them.
I mean a real conversation where both sides search for answers to the fundamental balancing between having rights and dealing with the side effect of those rights. Such a conversation has not happened yet. It likely never will. But if it did, people would have to have honest answers to questions we are not even allowed to ask, at least not in the RKBA debate. Other areas of American life confront those life and death questions every day. Traffic engineers will flat out tell you that they cannot signalize every intersection on every road. That would require an almost infinite amount of taxpayer dollars. If you press them on how they decide where the stop signs are placed, and I mean press them really hard, and I have, they’ll tell you someone has to die at an intersection before the expense of a stop sign is justified. Right there, society has placed a dollar and cents number on what a human life is worth.
So don’t tell me that America can’t have an honest conversation with itself about the cost of having a Second Amendment, vs the cost of giving it up.
Bottom line? Lots of people don’t want to discuss it because they don’t want to deal with the answers.
If it would save one life, wouldn’t it be worth it? Not if in doing so it cost 100 other lives or opens America up to what passes as a free society elsewhere.
The Founders designed a system of rights that covered precisely these eventualities.
Progressives deliberately hobbled those rights with artificial “gun-free zones,” and now want to “have a conversation” about how to fix the problem they created… WITHOUT removing their hobbles that created it in the first place.
Well, screw that.
Gowdy asks leading questions designed to lead to a place with more infringements. He’s a well paid shill for the big state these days as his bosses at the network desire.