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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe NRA Has Successfully Framed the Gun Debate as Either/Or With No Middle Ground
We need to reframe the debate as "and." We can keep Americans safe and a have Second Amendment. The NRA has created an all or nothing argument and every day Americans pay with their lives. We need to change the frame.
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The NRA Has Successfully Framed the Gun Debate as Either/Or With No Middle Ground (Original Post)
dlk
Feb 2018
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right wing/conservative views are extreme black and white - no middle ground
NRaleighLiberal
Feb 2018
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grumpyduck
(6,672 posts)1. I wouldn't want to see it
"two wrongs don't make a right" and all those old school cliches notwithstanding, but I'd be really curious as to what the NRA response would be if someone took out a few of their top leadership with an AR-15.
NRaleighLiberal
(61,696 posts)2. right wing/conservative views are extreme black and white - no middle ground
this is not surprising - it is authoritarian in nature.
dlk
(13,180 posts)3. Republicans Use Fear to Motivate and Manipulate
Time to call for all of the advertising wizards to create a new frame for the debate.