NYC bill would put NYPD gun offender database online

[DanTex]

17. Sorry, you're not fooling anyone.

People looking for compromise don't start out by repeating well-rehearsed NRA talking points. When you say things like "registration leads to confiscation", you are signaling quite clearly not only that your right-wing views on this issue are fixed, but that in fact you adhere to the whole gun ideology.

As an illustrative example, consider climate change. Some people might say something like "I want to protect the environment, but I'm not sure that climate change is really a big threat". That is someone who might be reasoned with, or compromised with. But if a person starts talking about the climategate emails, or sunspots, or global cooling, or any of the other explicit talking points, that is a person who has pretty much been brainwashed by Glenn Beck.