Tuesday, September 4, 2007

"Compromise" as defined by Anti's..

While the focus has been on the typical timeline of Anti blogs, it was this part of the ArmedSchoolTeachers post that caught my eye:

Her compromises were as follows:

1. Ban all .50 caliber firearms immediately.
2. Require waiting periods and background checks for all gun sales, private and public.
3. Ban handguns, or, if that's not possible, don't let them anywhere near cities or minorities.
4. Ban assault weapons. After that, get right to work figuring out what an assault weapon is.
5. Hunters can keep some of their guns for hunting, but they'll have to be locked up. We'll need a law for that, too.
6. It would be nice if all the gun owners left the NRA and it folded, because the NRA tends to lie to the gun owners and tell them that they aren't all hunters and they won't like the aforementioned compromises--and we can't have that.


Right out of the Brady Handbook.

And here's what it means to the rest of the English speaking world:

com·pro·mise [kom-pruh-mahyz] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation noun, verb, -mised, -mis·ing. –noun
1.a settlement of differences by mutual concessions; an agreement reached by adjustment of conflicting or opposing claims, principles, etc., by reciprocal modification of demands.
2.the result of such a settlement.
3.something intermediate between different things: The split-level is a compromise between a ranch house and a multistoried house.


Obviously the Anti's consider definition 3 to be predominant as they're being magnanimous enough not to call for a complete ban and confiscation of firearms.

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