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To quote some high-effort perspective contrary to mine:
The conversation is now converging irreversibly on the Supreme Court's "political capital", and that's the end of the Court as an effective conflict-resolution mechanism.
Maine is a blue tribe area, it is all 2A all the way down, same for Vermont, even more blue, also 2A friendly. There is now a 72 hour waiting period in Maine due to the Lewiston shootings, not that one had anything to do with the other from a factual standpoint. But you can buy a gun and tuck it in your waistband in the bluest city in the state if you want.
Is your argument that Vermont and Maine are more central examples of Blue Tribe areas than New York, California, Washington State, Washington DC and Illinois?
No I am saying that the blanket statement of "The Second Amendment doesn't exist in Blue Tribe areas," is provably wrong.
Would you agree that the second amendment doesn't exist in most Blue Tribe areas? Would it be better to break the areas down by population percentage?
All statements are wrong. Some statements are useful. I think my original statement is accurate enough to be more useful than your correction. My point is that important constitutional rights have been denied in large chunks of the country, and those denials have survived long-term challenges, to the point that they are probably not going to be defeated in the forseeable future under current conditions. Further, I argue that the failure of our established mechanisms for resolving constitutional disputes demonstrates that those mechanisms no longer work. Do you disagree?
It is literally wrong! I provided 2 examples of it being dead wrong...This is taking on the aspects of an upsetting phenomenon I've encountered when debunking an occasional 100% fake post on facebook on either side of the political spectrum.
The author will basically say I don't care that it is false, it sounds good to me, or it is funny, or it in your case a slightly more sophisticated " it is directionally correct" type statement.
The Second Amendment doesn't exist in Blue Tribe areas," is an incorrect statement. Not everything can or should be "big pictured" into neither being true or false because everything is nebulous. Your statement was wrong. In reality, what you said is not true, it was false.
And I have accepted your correction, and asked "Would you agree that the second amendment doesn't exist in most Blue Tribe areas?" Is that statement inaccurate? Is it reasonable for me to ask how wrong I am, or is correctness purely binary? If you correct me by being more precise, then I can try to be more correct than you, and so on, and we can converge on truth. Or do you believe that the conversation should just terminate? I said something incorrect, you point out the error, and I shrink away, banished by the Light of Truth?
Then instruct me! Give me a statement about the realities of the Second Amendment in Blue Tribe areas that 1) communicates the reality of the overall situation and 2) is more accurate than mine.
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