I am sorry I missed this several days ago. The examiner article, written by Kurt Hoffman, and linked to on his blog has an excellent analogy of the position gun rights people find themselves in:
I do not think we will ever see uninfringed gun rights in my lifetime. But gun rights are only one of the rights of a free people. They are the "canary in the coal mine" when it comes to freedom in general. All of our liberties are under assault right now, but especially our gun rights, and the sad part is that it is we ourselves who have put the noose around our own necks.There's an old joke in which (to be brief) a man asks a woman if she would be willing to sleep with him for a million dollars. She allows that she probably would. He then shows her a $100 bill, and says "let's go." Deeply offended, the woman asks him, "What kind of person do you think I am?" He replies, "My Dear, we have already established that. Now we are merely haggling over the price."
It's a droll little joke, but the underlying theme is perhaps not so funny. The moment a woman enters into negotiations over the price of what would otherwise have been a priceless gift, to be shared with a lover, she has degraded it to a mere commodity, to be sold to a customer. Restoring it to "priceless gift" status becomes enormously difficult.
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