What happens if gun ownership is not enough?

[TheOTHERmaninblack]

At the risk of initiating a s**tstorm, I have to point out that "conservatives" have no more in common with hard core libertarians than they do with hard core leftists. As such, urging that we "forget our differences" and team up for our common goals is a fool's errand. We don't exactly HAVE common goals.

Yes, there are areas of intersection. There are areas of intersection with the leftists, though they are smaller.

A Tea Party movement sort of thing is the one avenue that I think we have to use those areas of overlay. The Tea Party brought disparate groups together based on a single point of shared interest, ignoring the differences. I think that's about all the conservatives, neocons, libertarians, free-staters, classical liberals, et al, can hope for by way of cooperation. The left ruthlessly culls the outliers, where our outliers simply take their balls and go home. But the left is (by the very nature of its adherents) able to capture a much larger portion of their pool, while we individualists tend to take more of an all or nothing view-- which is why we're losing.

Anybody who wants to argue libertarianism with me (A former libertarian) take it to IM, please, and don't futz up the thread.