Trying to force our "rights" against their policy will only engender increased resistance.
This is an excellent point, one I had neglected, and one which, years ago, drove me to libertarianism in the first place.
People have a pretty good sense what their rights are. If you act in opposition to their rights, they'll
feel it and they'll fight you.
This is why prohibition (of things, like alcohol or drugs) never works, for instance. People actively work against it, as though out of spite (and many more simply ignore it). It's a tendency which likely seems childish to the statists, but which to me is actually quite noble.
Getting along is a two way street, folks. Don't ever forget that. There's a time to righteously
demand respect, and there's a time to give others respect, too.
Some folks seem to be much more concerned with the getting part rather than the giving, and seem surprised that there are other people in the world disinclined to such charity.
I submit that OCers are welcome virtually everywhere; that is a war long won - and not through government, but through reason and the good old power of the consumer's wallet. Now might be the time to magnanimously bask in victory, rather than hound the remaining scraps of opposition like so many petulant, spoiled brats who can't bear the thought that
anyone still disagrees.
There are other aspects to the right and practicality of carrying a firearm far more worthy of our attention and efforts.
