USAFNoDAk wrote, quoting my comment:
The antis likely will not give up, and neither can/should our side. This is a battle that must be fought again and again, or at least till the other guys surrender, a situation that I for one do not see happening
When we lose a fight, we begin lose our guns, our possessions, our hobbies, our passions, our rights, etc. etc. If the anti's lose a fight, they've lost nothing. Thus, it's easy for them to continue to roll the dice as often as they wish, because they have nothing to lose, except maybe their "feelings of safety". Silly dunderheads, if they were smart, they'd realize that gun control and gun bans DO NOT increase their safety. But to them, it's all about "feelings" for the most part.
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With respect, might I offer the following, re the anti's. It’s not in the least a question of intelligence or of "being smart" as you put it, rather it is the following.
The antis simply don’t trust, and look down upon us ordinary types, as we are so damned dumb, by their lights, as to try to and or insist on maintaining such old fashioned concepts as CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS, as well as adhering to such other old fashioned concepts as FACTS, one such being that 2 + 2 = 4. Mind, not all gun owners adhere to such concepts, though some do.
Additionally, our adhering to old fashioned concepts interferes with the anti's never ending quest for power. They really, push coming to shove, respecting the movers and shakers of "anti gunism", do not care all that much about particular issues, other than that one particular issue, that at a particular juncture in time and circumstances that might prove handy, as something on which to hang their hats. They, like the Pro Lifers, no I do not want to argue that, simply want one thing and one thing only, that being POWER, the ability to tell you what you might do, when you might do it and how you should do it. In my perhaps jaundiced, view, that is the one point that must never be overlooked.
As to their coming back again and again, as another poster noted, they have taxpayers money to play with. This is true, especially respecting the fact that people keep electing these clowns to public office.