Letter to the Editor: Slippery slope eventually leads to concrete terrace

Dear Editor,
I encountered some skepticism last summer when I introduced your readers to the gun snatching bogeywoman, Confiscation Connie, and I feel vindicated now that we have a genuine Connie Catcher advertising on a major city street. I see Connie bait daily in the form of a gun flapping flag and the CC directed dare, “Come and take it.”
Driving by the Catcher and his decoys I’m reminded of my own introduction to Connie. My old man, a sergeant under MacArthur, was in a jovial mood when he mocked the risk of gun confiscation, but he grew somber toward the end of the lesson when he said, “Jess, no man is braver than the one standing up to a non-existent enemy.”
As a pre-Echo Chamber element of conservative propaganda, the gun confiscation myth gives us insight into Original Cynicism: the desire of elites to manipulate the thinking of the common man. For 60 years, slickers, who would faint straight-away deaning a squirrel, who would wet their silk underdrawers worming a hook, have spread dread in the minds of hardworking hunters.

The chisel that etches American attitudes into reality stone is hotter, longer and sharper, when it comes to the Second Amendment, than any other element of U.S. governance. When the NRA resists potential gun laws it always goes to the “slippery slope” argument, suggesting that any compromise will lead to a slide (down the slope) to more intrusive gun legislation.
Folks, the slippery slope is slick, but it only slides an inch before it comes to the “concrete terrace”. The terrace is deep and wide, and it is made up of Independents and Democrats who cherish their hunting and weapons every bit as much as their Republican neighbors.
In a society more than fair by historical standards, which abounds with opportunity, the Cynics are sewing a sense of victimhood among their followers. The followers are trained to put political ire before prayer, as a response to an ever-changing world, and then they call that naive transition “courageous.”
Jesse Laurentius,
Perryville