I agree with all of that. I just don't think it is going to play out like that.
I just went back and reread what prompted the back/forth between you and rvb. And I just have no comment on that. But then this hit me and I'd like to comment on this.
How do you think this will play out? What game do you think we're playing? I mean, I'm not trivializing this to say it's just a game. Just that it is a suitable metaphor for how we go about achieving goals. How we exploit rules and apply strategy to win. So if we're playing the "free society" game, and they're playing the "utopian society" game, how is that going to play out, and what strategies should we use to win?
Does saying "no" to their demands favor them? One might say it depends who controls the narrative to an extent that reaches the most undecided people. But if they can control the narrative anyway, it's only a matter of time before they win the game.
A stance against any further gun control may appear to be pejoratively uncompromising to moderates if they only ever hear their side. If they get to control the narrative, it's lost anyway, so I think our best shot at tamping the gun control frenzy is saying no and articulating a well reasoned "why" as publicly as we can. Social media gives us more of a voice than we had in the past. We need to use it before the left takes that away.