Banning assault rifles obviously means that all guns will be banned eventually.
Just like how allowing gay marriage means we will have to allow people to marry penguins. And how legalizing marijuana means we have to also legalize heroin.
Just like our history! We installed a minimum wage and the next thing you know, the government is setting all salaries for every single person. We gave women the right to vote and now all children get to vote, too. We registered cars and made provisions for their safety which immediately led to all cars being banned.
Because, of course, we have no possible way of doing anything reasonable as a population and can only do the most absurd outrageous outcome at the end of the slippery slope.
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I think there are certain hot button topics where any attempt to even discuss the issue is met with absolute irrational defensive posturing (abortion being another). I think the reason these two issues in particular evoke fear of the slippery slope is because some people have in fact stated that their goal is to eliminate them totally.
It is my belief that those trying to completely abolish guns are a tiny minority, those trying to completely ban abortion a larger minority, but the effect is the same. That if a single inch of ground is given, the push to abolish will be emboldened and become inevitable.
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I often find the reluctance to give an inch or even compromise is a hold over from the horrible ‘Contract with America’ business a while back.
I can’t remember for sure, but wasn’t that about the same time we had to endure all those gov’t shutdowns over the disputes between Clinton and Gingrich republicans? I think our reps ought to knock off all this Political brinksmenship their doing and just work on what their constituents want them to vote on & such. (And definitely not take what they hear from an overly funded lobbyist without a whole bag of salt.)
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