. Common sense. And then the gun owners say, "The gun was in his hand. It's his responsibility. That's the end of the conversation." Who's right?

Well there's a weird hybrid going on here. I believe that gun owners are rationally irrational. Here's what I mean. The moment you say, you know this isn't an absolute, we're going to say there are gun safety rules and responsibilities and stuff but use your common sense. So what happens the first time you say use your common sense? How does that work out? Well here's common sense: don't leave a loaded gun around where there are children. Like you wouldn't leave it on your table loaded if any kids were in the room, right? Common sense. No gun owner who was responsible would do that.

But let's say you use the other standard. Common sense. Does everybody have the same amount of common sense? I don't think so. You don't think that that would give permission for somebody to say, "Yeah it's available to the kid but it's not going to happen because I'm closer to the table than the children are and if I see the children go for the gun I'll just get there first. I'm just using my common sense. There's no way they're going to get the gun even though it's just sitting right out there because I'm closer to the table. Common sense. People, if my kid is heading toward the table I'm going to protect the gun." Then what happens? Boom. Right? You lose your concentration. You walk away. A kid picks up the gun. In trouble.

So I believe gun owners pursue something I would call rational irrationality because it works. It is irrational to say there never can be an exception. The reason they do it is because it works, right? It's an irrational system that's the only one that works. So gun owners know that. So when you argue, "No, the responsibility with somebody else," gun owners don't even want to have the conversation because you don't want to open that door a crack, not even a crack. Because as soon as you say common sense is the standard, people get killed. Every gun owner knows that.

Now how many people on the left could have explained it with the nuance that I just explained it? Not many. In fact I've never heard it.

So see that was gonna dovetail into a really good point. Here was the point. The other blind spot that the Democrats have is the flexibility of Republicans. Am I right? Because you know you can poke them forever it seems like. You know they'll poke you. "Oh you have to use this word. I hate that word." You have to use it anyway. You have to use this word. "When you first, ah but I don't want to." Yeah I'm poking you a little bit. And then the conservatives say, "You know I got better things to do. I'm not gonna die on that hill." And then I say, "You know I'm gonna raise your taxes a little bit, just a little bit." Raise your taxes. The Republicans say, "Hey we hate that. We hate that." "Ah you know I got a lot to work on today. I'm not going to dedicate my life to this one little area of life." And next thing you know they're just pushed and pushed and pushed. And that's what's been happening it seems lately.

But here's the blind spot. Republicans are not flexible about children. That's the red line. Have you heard of abortion? Republicans are not flexible about children an