Pretty much sums it up--stolen from SigForum

[matty 810]

We cannot negotiate with those who say, 'What's mine is mine, and

what's yours is negotiable.'"

 

-- John F. Kennedy, Address to the American People, 25 JUL 1961

 

"Most people tend to substitute the word 'compromise' for the first

'negotiate' in that quote, and it does tend to fit the current

circumstances.

 

Once again the anti-gun people are starting to trot out the tired and

hackneyed meme of "compromise" in the "national gun conversation".

 

One of the more highly linked of my posts is the one about the "Gun

Rights Cake" analogy, which I will now re-post and expand a bit:

 

I hear a lot about "compromise" from the gun-control camp ... except,

it's not compromise.

 

Allow me to illustrate:

 

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.

 

This leaves me with half of my cake and there I am, enjoying my cake

when you walk back up and say, "Give me that cake."

 

I say -- again: "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 compromise -- let us call this one the Gun Control Act of 1968

-- and this time 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.

 

Let me restate that: I started out with MY CAKE and you have already

'compromised' me out of ninety percent of MY CAKE ...

 

... and here you come again. Compromise! ... Lautenberg Act (nibble,

nibble). Compromise! ... The HUD/Smith and Wesson agreement (nibble,

nibble). Compromise! ... The Brady Law (NOM NOM NOM). Compromise! ...

The School Safety and Law Enforcement Improvement Act (sweet

tap-dancing Freyja, my finger!)

 

After every one of these "compromises" -- in which I lose rights and

you lose NOTHING -- 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" as you try for the rest of my cake.

 

In 1933 I -- or any other American -- could buy a fully-automatic

Thompson sub-machine gun, a 20mm anti-tank gun, or shorten the barrel

of any gun I owned to any length I thought fit, silence any gun I

owned, and a host of other things.

 

Come your "compromise" in 1934, and suddenly I can't buy a sub-machine

gun, a silencer, or a Short-Barreled Firearm without .Gov permission

and paying a hefty tax. What the hell did y'all lose in this

"compromise"?

 

In 1967 I, or any other American, could buy or sell firearms anywhere

we felt like it, in any State we felt like, with no restrictions. We

"compromised" in 1968, and suddenly I've got to have a Federal Firearms

License to have a business involving firearms, and there's whole bunch

of rules limiting what, where and how I buy or sell guns.

 

In 1968, "sporting purpose" -- a term found NOT ANY DAMNED WHERE IN THE

CONSTITUTION, TO SAY NOTHING OF THE SECOND AMENDMENT -- suddenly became

a legal reason to prevent the importation of guns that had been freely

imported in 1967.

 

Tell me, do -- exactly what the hell did you lose in this 1968

"compromise"?

 

The Lautenberg Act was a "compromise" which suddenly deprived Americans

of a Constitutional Right for being accused or convicted of a

misdemeanor -- a bloody MISDEMEANOR! What did your side lose in this

"compromise"?

 

I could go on and on, but the plain and simple truth of the matter is

that a genuine "compromise" means that both sides give up something. My

side of the discussion has been giving, giving, and giving yet more --

and your side has been taking, taking, and now wants to take more.

 

For you, "compromise" means you'll take half of my cake now, and the

other half of my cake next time. Always has been, always will be.

 

I've got news for you: That is not "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", and I have flat had enough."

[brocglock23 4]

damn right

[mipafox 438]

As much as my religion is despised by some of these Air Vamps, I can assure you they should be thankful for it now, more than ever.

[Soju 153]

Yep, exactly what I am saying.

 

If they want to compromise, lets start.

 

I want to eliminate all current gun control laws. We can compromise by only getting rid of half of them.

 

But that is unreasonable...

 

 

Makes me want..........................

 

 

some cake.

 

I'm pretty freaking..........................

 

 

hungry right now actually.

[Mr.Shoot_It_All 13]

i actually have carrot cake i made last night in the fridge going to get it right now.....

 

great link !!!