[dTal]

>When a cop is beating a liberal to death with a stick, the liberal understands the cop is exercising his power and will get away with it. When a cop is beating a conservative to death with a stick the conservative will righteously complain about how that's illegal and I want this bad apple's badge number.

So, conservatives are the starry-eyed idealists and the liberals are the hard-nosed realists? That's an intriguing reversal of the usual framing.

[guerrilla]

I think their point was that they're both starry-eyed idealists but it manifests in different ways.

[Consultant32452]

Now do the other side of the analogy with liberals and gun free zone signs.

[dTal]

To be honest, I don't really understand the analogy. Guns have been prohibited in school zones since 1990. It was signed into law by George H. W. Bush. Is there some new angle on this that implicates liberals in unreasonable behavior?

[Consultant32452]

I doubt we have the same understanding of what constitutes reasonable behavior, so I'm not sure I can answer that directly.

However, when a mass shooting of some sort occurs there is a distinct difference between how conservatives tend to respond to such a thing and how liberals do. Liberals will want more areas to be gun free zones. They will pressure businesses like grocery stores to put up gun free zone signs or push for stricter gun regulations that would not have prevented the event in the first place.

This behavior is directly analogous to the conservative behavior. The state does not care about Constitutional rights any more than mass murderers care about gun free zones. Hopefully it's understandable why this analogy might be difficult to get for both conservatives and liberals because it is difficult to step outside ones entire worldview.

[dragonwriter]

> It was signed into law by George H. W. Bush.

The law signed by Bush in 1990 was struck down in 1995, but Congress made a weaker law after that.