{"id":87725,"date":"2022-11-15T16:30:21","date_gmt":"2022-11-15T22:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=87725"},"modified":"2022-11-15T16:31:11","modified_gmt":"2022-11-15T22:31:11","slug":"87725","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=87725","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

Why there’s no common ground on gun debate<\/a><\/p>\n

As a gun rights advocate, I\u2019m often accused of being stubborn. I refuse to give any ground or entertain any position that favors gun control. I, personally, might prefer to see laws enforced until they\u2019re declared unconstitutional, but there\u2019s literally no gun law I can remotely favor.<\/p>\n

And this makes me a bad person.<\/p>\n

However, in\u00a0a story about the growing divide in Uvalde, TX<\/a>, I came across this comment:<\/p>\n

Speaking at a protest near the\u00a0Texas<\/a>\u00a0Capitol on 27 August, Brett Cross, whose 10-year-old nephew and adopted son Uzaiyah was one of the 21 victims, left no room for equivocation. He was there with hundreds to demand that the Texas governor, Greg Abbott, call a special legislative session to raise the age to buy assault-style weapons from 18 \u2013 the age of the Robb elementary mass murderer \u2013 to 21.<\/p>\n

\u201cFight with us,\u201d he said. \u201cBecause you don\u2019t want to be fighting from this side with a hole in your heart.\u201d<\/p>\n

There is no middle ground left in Uvalde. The shared cause of raising the age for buying assault rifles clarifies the two sides of the fight: those who demand change and those who oppose it. While Abbott himself had told Cross he didn\u2019t see guns as the real culprit in Uvalde, to simply accept inaction wasn\u2019t an option. Giving up was inconceivable to families who would have given anything to prevent their children from dying. The families saw no good excuse for those unwilling to join their cause.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you\u2019re not trying,\u201d Cross said, \u201cyou\u2019re complicit.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And that is why there will\u00a0never<\/em>\u00a0be any middle ground in the gun debate.<\/p>\n

This line of \u201cargument\u201d pisses me off and it always has. Why? Because I\u2019ve been there. Not to the extent Cross has, but I\u2019ve lost someone to a mass shooting, someone I cared about, and I\u2019ve talked about\u00a0how this line of argument infuriates me<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Then there\u2019s our own Ryan Petty, who lost his daughter at Parkland. I haven\u2019t talked to him about it, but I\u2019m pretty sure it makes him furious as well.<\/p>\n

See, this line of argument stems can only make sense if you believe that everyone agrees that gun control works, they only oppose you for some other reason. As a result, your opposition to gun control can only be motivated by factors in spite of this self-evident truth.<\/strong><\/p>\n

They cannot grasp that we simply know. It. Won\u2019t. Work.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Then again, it\u2019s not like they\u2019re willing to sit down and listen when it comes to guns. They\u2019re often too busy preaching.<\/p>\n

For example, take Uvalde. For all the talk of some deep divide in the community, with anti-gun voices supposedly being on the side of the angels,\u00a0Beto O\u2019Rourke\u00a0lost<\/em>\u00a0Uvalde County<\/a>. It seems there\u2019s a strong possibility that many in the community, perhaps even a majority, recognize that it wasn\u2019t the tool used that resulted in that atrocity, but the tool using it.<\/p>\n

Do not come at me or people like me and pretend we\u2019re somehow responsible for the actions of others when you have made it clear you\u2019ll accept nothing but capitulation from us. Do not pretend you\u2019re looking for solutions when the only thing you\u2019re wanting is something that doesn\u2019t yield the results you think.<\/p>\n

Frankly, don\u2019t be surprised when we\u2019re not willing to listen to you when all you do is screech and blame us for things we\u2019re not responsible for.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Why there’s no common ground on gun debate As a gun rights advocate, I\u2019m often accused of being stubborn. I refuse to give any ground or entertain any position that favors gun control. I, personally, might prefer to see laws enforced until they\u2019re declared unconstitutional, but there\u2019s literally no gun law I can remotely favor. … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-rkba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=87725"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87725\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87727,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87725\/revisions\/87727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}