Little Raven
On Walkabout
So says Jonah Goldberg of National Review, commenting on what he sees as a great victory for conservatives that is unfolding right now...the fact that gun control has been all but abandoned by the Left.
Gun control, the way that various groups were attempting to pursue it during the 90s, was flat out bad policy. Personally, I'm a firm believer in the right to own a gun, but if you are going to attempt the change that, there's a right and wrong way to go about it. Judicial fiat is the wrong way. And the Democrats attempts to impose it on the issue cost them. Abandoning that route will serve the entire country, and I applaud the fact that the issue has been successfully sidelined. Let's hope that when/if the Democrats feel obliged to take up that sword again, they do it the way Benjamin Wittes suggests. In the end, honest debate will serve them better than backroom wrangling. It generally does.
I'm going to do something I rarely do. I'm going to agree with Jonah. Except that I'm to add that this is not just a victory for conservatives, it's a victory for liberals as well.
Gun control, the way that various groups were attempting to pursue it during the 90s, was flat out bad policy. Personally, I'm a firm believer in the right to own a gun, but if you are going to attempt the change that, there's a right and wrong way to go about it. Judicial fiat is the wrong way. And the Democrats attempts to impose it on the issue cost them. Abandoning that route will serve the entire country, and I applaud the fact that the issue has been successfully sidelined. Let's hope that when/if the Democrats feel obliged to take up that sword again, they do it the way Benjamin Wittes suggests. In the end, honest debate will serve them better than backroom wrangling. It generally does.
But that Democrats back in the 90s were attempting to engineer that situation was never much of a secret. And I personally think those attempts contributed to getting kicked to the curb in '94.
