Quote Originally Posted by baja_yu View Post
That's a nice story but if you've been more descriptive of the udder-flapping it would have been great.
I don't know if you were serious, or not, but when I wrote that, I felt the same way. I left out a more comical description of dairy cows in flight because the post was already too long.

Somebody recently stated that it isn't the case that the left and the right can't agree on any issues, but instead, the case is that the left and right don't even agree about what the issues are. The whole gun control thing is such an issue. For the mainstream Democrats and any centrists (assuming they actually exist), the gun control issue isn't worth even bringing up. It's a fight not worth having because only a few dedicated special interest groups are still pushing it. The issue was around in the 90s, it was a loser then, and isn't worth wasting a minute on anymore. The more that anybody in Democratic leadership state that, though, the more alarmed the right becomes. Whenever Obama says that he's not interested in gun control legislation, even immediately following an otherwise leverage moment, such as the shooting in CO, the conservative gun rights folks conclude that it's further proof of a sinister design. As if it was more clever to wait until there is NOT any leverage before springing this on people.

Obama will not advance a single piece of legislation that in any way limits gun rights unless there is overwhelming support for it. He just doesn't care enough about the issue to spend any time on the issue without the public already strongly backing it to the point that congress won't oppose it. Since that isn't going to happen, neither will there be any gun control legislation proposed by the executive branch for the next four years, just as there wasn't for the last four.

@Moonman: When have we ever stayed on topic in Chit-Chat. I'd say we are doing pretty well with this thread compared to most threads.