As a gun owner who grew up to be a liberal, I have so many issues with this…

1) You should be ashamed of yourself for being so flippant. Guns are a very serious thing, and should not be regarded with such a cavalier attitude. And yes, even though most of us do have the right to possess them, a great many people should not! Like you, for instance, who obviously lacks the proper respect and responsibility for such a monumental undertaking.

2) A huge number of liberals, especially red/swing state liberals, are already avid gun users. We grew up hunting and target shooting before our political ideals ever formed. You didn’t stumble upon some secret here. There are millions of us already in the world. We’re doing just fine, thanks.

3) The right to possess a firearm does not allow you to use it AT ALL. How, when and if you decide to use a gun will dictate whether or not there are consequences for you. Usually there are. Even if it’s completely legal, you risk having to live out your days having ended someone’s life. That’s a consequence. You risk becoming the next George Zimmerman, harassed in public, for the rest of your days. That’s a consequence. And just to be perfectly clear, the second amendment does not give anyone the right to murder anyone under any circumstances.

4) As a liberal, you’ve put me in a difficult position. I have to defend conservatives from your utter ignorance. I don’t want to do this, but you leave me no choice because you’re just plain wrong. The reason conservatives have been so resistant to gun control measures is because all of the gun control measures come from liberals who stand before the nation and leave no doubt that they haven’t the faintest clue what the hell they’re talking about. It’s like going to a machinist for advice on forestry management. Why the hell would you listen to someone talk out of their ass and make zero sense?

The majority of gun owners support initiatives like universal background checks. The problem lies in the “how” of it all, the implementation. That’s where it breaks down. It’s like me telling you that we can have free college tuition for all… if we lease all of our public lands to Chinese mining companies. The goal is great and admirable, but we’re not willing to achieve it that way. Same thing with background checks. No one has proposed a meaningful way of implementing it that wouldn’t be a huge pain in the ass.

AND, so many liberal legislators also attach stipulations to their bills… things like magazine capacities, and cosmetic appearances… Those efforts (which are effectively pointless in the first place) sabotage the more beneficial reforms.

And that’s how they want it! Because then the liberals (who lose through their own fault) get to blame the conservatives for being intransigent and unreasonable, anti-safety and so on. They throw themselves a pity party while grandstanding and committing character assassination… when all they had to do was come up with a good goddamn idea in the first place.

And I haven’t even mentioned the percentage of gun control proposals that are clearly unconstitutional from the outset. That reeks of overreach and “tyrannical” governance.

And New York City and San Francisco liberals wonder why they can’t get any traction on this issue…