namedpipes
NES Member
It's different because you're basically prodding the guy at the bar going "Get drunk and belligerent so I can hit you". You're pushing for a fight that isn't going to happen anytime soon, if ever.
The problem is you're showing them that their course of action is right in their mind, because you look dangerous and need to be stopped.
What you don't get is that the drunkard is already on the attack, it just doesn't look that way.
I guarantee you, that I can immobilize you with tissue paper. It might take a lot of it, but wrapping you with enough Scott Tissue will eventually make you unable to move. Will eventually suffocate you and you will die. From something we use to wipe our noses.
That's exactly what is happening. More successfully in states like MA, CA and NJ, but increasingly, everywhere. It's happening at the Federal level with our current president and Cankles promises more. It's happening at the state level - witness NY and CT recently. It's happening at the local level - witness the shooting range "war" going on in West Boyleston.
Give it another two or three hundred years. It might be legal to own a gun but it will be effectively impossible to get ammo for it or to carry it in any meaningful manner. There will simply be too many laws to comply with.
The death of a thousand cuts. That's why I said earlier that they will win. They will. Be it next year, maybe in 50 or even 200 years, but they will win. And then there will absolutely be bloodshed, no matter how frigging civilized you think you're being. You're just being shortsighted. You're being duped.