Remember back to 2004 and the years following it. The Assault Weapon Ban sunsets, high capacity magazines are legally available again, Shall-Issue Concealed Carry permits are available in a growing number of states and the Heller and McDonald decisions seem to cement gun rights into law. Crime was down, things were good. Even staunch Democrats kept gun control on the back burner.

Then there was a spate mass shootings and people started thinking again about strict gun control laws. Here is where our parable starts. Gun control advocates are like Walter Peck in Ghostbusters. Concerned with the danger they are seeing, they come to the gun community/the NRA. They ask to investigate and want to understand what is happening. The NRA acts like Peter Venkman, being sly, and eventually standing on their rights to send Peck away.

A few years pass and more mass shootings happen. Now Peck comes back with the police, civilian support and a court order. Now Venkman is cooperative, trying to defuse the situation before his life and livelihood get taken away. But Peck is having none of it, wrecks the business and puts Venkman (and his friends/co-workers) in jail.

That's where we're at now. Gun culture had it's chance to talk it out and negotiate some common sense rules that might make things better. We, as gun owners, had a chance to work with the liberals and help guide the law. But instead we behaved like jackasses and said bullshit like "The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun." We failed to address any of their concerns in a meaningful way. Now they are having none of it and are coming for as much as they can take. I'm just hoping that this doesn't end as it did in the movie with an even larger disaster causes by those wishing to reduce harm.