...observed that Prohibition had produced a generation of people who routinely broke laws and had no respect for them, because they got in the habit of breaking the one law, and the suite of regulations that supported it, that made no sense.
Eventually that law was repealed, but not before it gave organized crime a whole new model for doing business, which they transferred to other illegal activities.
Making law must always be a negotiation, in a democracy.
When it ceases to be a negotiation, then the choice to ignore the law becomes a viable alternative to the ones upon whom the will of others is imposed. We've also had active protests against laws, which are much more visible. That's not just me talking: that's the lesson of history.
There just doesn't seem to be the will to look at people who own guns as fellow citizens with a legitimate viewpoint, and who are being asked (or maybe told) to give things up without convincing them that it's for the greater good.
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John O'Hara, in his novella "Imagine Kissing Pete" (I think)...
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- “Nothing can be done”
- OK. So, what to do?
- As with nuclear weapons, guns necessitate more gun ownership to protect you from all the guns.
- I'm disappointed
- It's not a "conservative" meme.
- OK. So, what to do?