h/t driftglass, America’s Leading Brooksologist, for bringing this to our attention:
The people who defend gun rights believe that snobbish elites look down on their morals and want to destroy their culture. If we end up telling such people that they and their guns are despicable, they will just despise us back and dig in their heels.
So if you want to stop school shootings it’s not enough just to vent and march. It’s necessary to let people from Red America lead the way, and to show respect to gun owners at all points. There has to be trust and respect first. Then we can strike a compromise on guns as guns, and not some sacred cross in the culture war.
I have three words for “the people who defend gun rights”.
I’ve heard this bullsh** before. We can’t talk about gun control, and we certainly can’t achieve it, until us liberal “snobbish elites” start showing “people from Red America” the respect, honor and deference they deserve as the heroic law-abiding respectable patriotic Americans they imagine themselves to be.
Sorry, but no.
This isn’t far off from George Will’s risible admonition to the LGBT community that they meekly and respectfully acquiesce to being discriminated against by commercial wedding vendors and other merchants with “religious beliefs”, because enforcing one’s legal rights in court or in an administrative tribunal is “abominable”.
Sorry, but no.
And all this from the cohort that keeps telling us that they nominated and elected a self-evidently vulgar, unqualified, belligerent, demented racist gangster because liberals said things and did things [at least, according to Fox News] that hurt their feelings — and we’re supposed to be the “snowflakes”.
Sorry, but no.
I will freely admit that I have no respect whatsoever for “gun rights” or for people who “believe in” “gun rights”. Nor do I have any respect whatsoever for anyone’s “religious beliefs”. Those are my biases. And I have no intention of feigning respect, admiration, honor, or deference for either cohort. I owe them nothing. And they admire themselves enough as it is.
Sorry, but no.