There is an example from our recent past.
One particular group that has seen “compromise” and incrementalism used as a way to strip them of their rights is smokers. This is what happens when you compromise with liberals.
Comedian and podcaster Adam Carolla has made this point many times on his show. It certainly exemplifies how a slope quickly becomes slippery and, if your interest is simply compromise, you can compromise your rights away.
To paraphrase Carolla, there was a time when you could smoke in restaurants. They are private property, and if the owner wanted to allow smoking, smoking was allowed. Then the government (liberals) decided smokers should be herded into their own area of a restaurant, the “smoking section.” So they went so smokers in the main dining room and said, “We’re going to need you to sit over here, in this side room You can smoke all you want, we just don’t want other people to smell it while they’re eating. You understand, right?”
Smokers, not wanting to cause a scene and knowing some non-smokers could be annoyed, happily complied.
Then the government comes back and says, “We’re going to need you to move to the bar area when you smoke. People are drinking there, and eating here, so it’d just be better if you moved over there.”
Smokers picked up their ashtrays, “Sure thing,” they said, and moved to the bar.
The government comes back and says they need smokers to step out front. “If you could just stand out front and smoke, that would be much better for everyone, OK? Don’t worry, there’s an awning and a heater, so you’ll be protected from the weather.”
Smokers picked up and moved outside.
“If you could move 50 feet from the door, that would be very helpful,” the government said next. “People smell smoke as they walk in the door and we don’t want that. Thanks.”
And now smokers are stuck down the block, wet and wondering how this happened. If someone had come up to them at first and said, “Hey, get down the street if you want to smoke,” it never would have happened, they wouldn’t have stood for it. But little by little, inch by inch, they moved because each move was small and seemed like a compromise.
Now smokers are never getting back inside, even if the owners of a bar or restaurant want them to. Their rights are gone, the private property rights of the owners are gone, and it was all done in the name of compromise.
There is no compromise with someone who doesn’t want you to exist, there is only incrementally losing ground until you no longer exist. A right diminished will never return, government does not cede back power once seized.
Trying to appease leftists never works because nothing short of everything they want is ever enough for them.
If people who support the Second Amendment start to compromise with liberals whose ultimate goal is to strip everyone of their right to defend themselves, it won’t be too long before they’re out on the street in the rain with the smokers. Never give them an inch.
Taken and adapted from: https://townhall.com/columnists/derekhunter/2018/03/04/do-not-give-an-inch-on-the-second-amendment-n2457078