The Politics of Someday

On a local political discussion forum, a DFL activist and school-board member or member-elect wrote about a comment I'd made about the Minnesota Personal Protection Act.

Spot the leaps of faith:

[People should not] rely on the statement that "the results after nearly three years are resoundingly good...The alleged "results" to which Mitch will refer won't be from an independent study...ince I don't have the time to engage in the kind of public sparring
that Mitch and I did with this issue several years ago (in part because some
of the people like me who worked against conceal carry are not subscribed to this listserv), I'll simply point to who the real winners were in the so-called "grass roots" effort that led to the passage of the law: that would be the gun manufacturers. Mitch will undoubtedly talk about how the gun manufacturers had absolutely no influence on this issue in Minnesota, but I suspect some day when sanity prevails around gun issues, we'll become
privy to the internal communications and other strategies that were used to
help create fear, gain passage of these laws in state after state, and ultimately lead to more and more sales of guns..Someday soon, hopefully, the politics will swing the other way, such that the interests of the overwhelming number of Americans who oppose such efforts to allow more guns in public will be accurately represented in the laws that govern firearms and their safety.

In other words: "I have no evidence, any evidence you produce will be ickypoopy, your side is insane, my side is bigger even though I have no electoral or demographic evidence to prove it, there's a conspiracy but I can't prove it, and eventually The South my side is going to win anyway, and I can't hear you, nya nya nya..."

In other words, the evidence that there's a huge mass of Americans who support draconian gun control - like Ted Kennedy's evidence of Homeland Security thuggishness, like the climate of conservative hate evidenced by the wave of other fake hate crimes, like the legal case against the NSA wiretapping of communications between captured Al Quaeda capos and their American accomplices, like the memos from the anonymous source that were roundly debunked but are still "fake but accurate" - the proof is coming. Any day now. Really.

The dog ate their homework.

The check is in the mail.

Posted by Mitch at December 28, 2005 07:50 AM | TrackBack