We are too busy fighting the only fight that matters for us to take time to stand back and look at all the lessons this fight will, in later life, teach us. But there are a LOT of them.

One I have given repeatedly was the simple failure of conservatives to point out that Communism was stupid because every Communist state had to shoot anyone who tried to escape it.

That is NOT a subtle point, but respectable conservatives and their kind were (and are) just too blindly stupid to use it.

We all know that gun control types live for another tragedy to exploit. Even dumbass conservatives have recently started mentioning THAT.

But conservatives never think down to the MANTRA level.

Yes, mass shootings would go down if victims had anyone there to defend them WTH a gun. Even conservatives are beginning to realize THAT.

But we are still not down to the basic premise.

The basic premise no one thinks not to concede is that freedom IS dangerous.

Freedom is NOT the right to do anything no one else disapproves of.

Every slave has always had THAT right.

Freedom is not the right to do anything that can do no harm to anybody.

Once again, you had that many rights under Hitler and Stalin.

Hence the importance of tragedies to gun control.

An asylum for the criminally insane is a totalitarian state.

A society that is treated like an asylum for the criminally insane is logically a totalitarian state.

In fact, the pro-gun argument is eerily similar to the pre-BUGS argument on race.

Both gun control opponents and AMPWs begin by conceding the other side’s most critical point.

AMPWs try to justify the very existence of our race.

The NRA tacitly concedes that people should only be allowed guns if some maniacs don’t misuse guns too much.