Nobody wants to take your guns, you paranoid mouthbreathers.

Except for the ones who do.

Needed: Domestic Disarmament, Not ‘Gun Control.’

Given that even micro gun control measures will be effectively blocked by the NRA and its allies, and that promoting mini measures as potentially effective is misleading, progressives may as well go for the big enchilada: Call for domestic disarmament.

One may say that the Supreme Court, after 250 years in which the Second Amendment was read as allowing only a well-regulated militia to have guns, recently reinterpreted it to mean that there is an individualized right to own guns. This suggests that we may have to get to domestic disarmament through the back door.

Make the gun manufacturers liable for harm done with their products. Ban the sale of ammunition. And vote for a president that will add to the Supreme Court those who will read the Second Amendment as written.

Setting aside the writer’s woeful 2nd amendment exegesis, he makes a good tactical point. As recently as ten years ago I laughed rather scornfully at gun rights activists who set their sights on ‘Vermont Carry.’ It was absurd, it was unrealistic, it was a pointless waste of limited resources, said I. And now it’s the law of the land in a rapidly increasing number of states because those people saw what I did not, which was that the time was right to forget small steps and just go for it.

So yeah. At present gungrabbers have found that bread-slicing isn’t getting them where they want to go. The tactic has gone from a true threat to a holding action to an effort to annoy the opposition to a plea for relevancy. So what have they got to lose by going for the gusto? Screw gradualism, let’s work at banning guns altogether.

It’s not that far-fetched, after all. Plenty of powerful people would sign on to passing a gun ban law tomorrow if only they could avoid the political consequences. But the clock is ticking. With all but the most “progressive” states now handing out concealed carry licenses like Mardi Gras beads and one state after another eliminating licensure entirely, not only gun ownership but gun bearing is becoming normalized. As years pass and the sky stubbornly refuses to fall, the lefties have to face the fear that more and more Americans will take it into their dim heads that a nation of armed and self-reliant citizens is not, in fact, a bad thing.

I sometimes worry that the crowd that runs things at Mordor-by-the-Potomac – republican as well as democrat, because a lust for control is by no means a vice unique to the left wing of the carrion bird – may actually become so dim as to think that the time has come to kick history’s ass and pass that law – ignoring that doing so would only turn a bunch of previously-minor scofflaws into genuinely endangered, and perhaps motivated, – and certainly armed – felons.

And wouldn’t life get interesting if that really happened?