You’d think that they would have learned the first time, but, in my experience, zealots rarely learn lessons. They’re just too sold out to their point of view to even consider that they’re wrong or that what they do might not work.
It’s true. Whether you’re talking about the superiority of a vegan diet or the perfection of a carnivore diet (or any of a myriad of other topics), those who have whole-heartedly bought into one side of the argument will keep pushing it with a religious devotion.
(Just to be clear, I’m not advocating for or against any specific diet. I’m just using that as an example here…)
Of course, you’ve seen that kind of utter devotion in the eyes of anti-2A activists. With the rare exception (which are good to see when they actually occur), anti-2A activists aren’t swayed by logic, facts, or anything else because they’ve completely bought into their cause.
And it looks like the leftists running the municipal government of Seattle, Washington (or, at least, parts of that government) are still pushing the same old, tired, discredited anti-2A views… even when those views were already crushed by the U.S. Supreme Court.
But reality isn’t stopping them from trying it again. Michael Clements writes,
The city of Seattle, Washington, is the latest in a line of state and local governments suing Austrian gunmaker Glock Inc. Like previous lawsuits, the Seattle action accuses the company of designing a legal semiautomatic gun that’s easily converted to an illegal machine gun.
According to the lawsuit, filed in King County Superior Court on Sept. 2, the company has refused to change its design, and people are being killed with illegally converted Glock pistols.
Never mind that SCOTUS ruled that Mexico couldn’t sue gun manufacturers for the actions that people have taken with their firearms. In fact, that ruling was so clear cut that left-leaning Justice Kagan wrote the majority opinion saying, basically, that manufacturers aren’t responsible for the actions of violent individuals.
Of course, that isn’t stopping Seattle from wasting even more taxpayer money on a lost cause.
So, to make the point: There’s a difference between persistence and foolishness. Seattle has definitely crossed into the latter category, and the taxpayers deserve better.
