For the gun rights people, O'Rourke is just stating what everyone already knew. To illustrate this, there's a lovely 'cake' meme [0] (available in both cartoon

For the gun rights people, O'Rourke is just stating what everyone already knew. To illustrate this, there's a lovely 'cake' meme [0] (available in both cartoon and text form!) about how much gun rights have already been eaten away, and every one was sold as a compromise already. At some point, "this is a compromise because it means you get to keep any rights at all" stops being acceptable. (The link itself is from 2017, but the text is from 2010) > Allow me to explain. > I hear a lot about "compromise" from your camp ... except, it's not compromise. > Let's say I have this cake. It is a very nice cake, with "GUN RIGHTS" written across the top in lovely floral icing. Along you come and say, "Give me that cake." > I say, "No, it's my cake." > You say, "Let's compromise. Give me half." I respond by asking what I get out of this compromise, and you reply that I get to keep half of my cake. > Okay, we compromise. Let us call this compromise The National Firearms Act of 1934. > There I am with my half of the cake, and you walk back up and say, "Give me that cake." > I say, "No, it's my cake." > You say, "Let's compromise." What do I get out of this compromise? Why, I get to keep half of what's left of the cake I already own. > So, we have your compromise -- let us call this one the Gun Control Act of 1968 -- and I'm left holding what is now just a quarter of my cake. > And I'm sitting in the corner with my quarter piece of cake, and here you come again. You want my cake. Again. > This time you take several bites -- we'll call this compromise the Clinton Executive Orders -- and I'm left with about a tenth of what has always been MY DAMN CAKE and you've got nine-tenths of it. > Then we compromised with the Lautenberg Act (nibble, nibble), the HUD/Smith and Wesson agreement (nibble, nibble), the Brady Law (NOM NOM NOM), the School Safety and Law Enforcement Improvement Act (sweet tap-dancing Freyja, my finger!) > I'm left holding crumbs of what was once a large and satisfying cake, and you're standing there with most of MY CAKE, making anime eyes and whining about being "reasonable", and wondering "why we won't compromise". > I'm done with being reasonable, and I'm done with compromise. Nothing about gun control in this country has ever been "reasonable" nor a genuine "compromise". > LawDog 0: https://thelawdogfiles.blogspot.com/2017/10/gun-rights-cake-analogy.html https://thelawdogfiles.blogspot.com/2017/10/gun-rights-cake-...