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RandySF

(57,656 posts)
Thu Mar 28, 2013, 09:29 AM Mar 2013

Michigan (potential) Dem. senate candidate: Don't demonize the NRA.

From Debbie Dingell's column in December, 2012:

Demonizing the NRA or gun owners in general gets us nowhere. A fresh round of old proposals for gun-control laws won’t work and will be followed by the renewed frustration of different factions going to their respective corners to fight instead of seeking real solutions.

We, as Americans, need to be willing to acknowledge that we have serious social problems and have to get at the root causes for so many of these horrific scenes: mental illness, failing educational systems, lack of job opportunities, the disintegration of families. We need communities more willing to identify behavior problems early on, to express zero tolerance for bullying, to implement processes that protect individual liberties yet flag potential problems.

Most important, we must remove the stigma of mental illness so that those who need help get help. We need law enforcement agencies that understand problems when they are identified, along with systems that support parents, teachers and employers in intervening and getting help to those who need it.



http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/gun-control-fights-wont-solve-the-real-issue/2012/12/20/18e853de-49fe-11e2-b6f0-e851e741d196_story.html

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Michigan (potential) Dem. senate candidate: Don't demonize the NRA. (Original Post) RandySF Mar 2013 OP
Fail. Next candidate, please. nt onehandle Mar 2013 #1
Debbie Dingell Dingbat marions ghost Mar 2013 #2
Her husband was once on the board. RandySF Mar 2013 #3
that explains it marions ghost Mar 2013 #5
"I don’t have all the answers. " she got that part right Kolesar Mar 2013 #4
nra makes it easy, necessary, to demonize their beliefs and apparent samsingh Mar 2013 #6
What's more disturbing RandySF Mar 2013 #9
Just what we need. Le Taz Hot Mar 2013 #7
oh just great, a nra apologist leftyohiolib Mar 2013 #8

RandySF

(57,656 posts)
3. Her husband was once on the board.
Thu Mar 28, 2013, 09:42 AM
Mar 2013

And the Congressman's son, a former State Senator, is even more nuts.

marions ghost

(19,841 posts)
5. that explains it
Thu Mar 28, 2013, 09:47 AM
Mar 2013


It's one thing to be a Dem who owns a gun. It's another thing to be a Dem who's in bed with the NRA.

Anybody who supports the NRA cannot be a Democrat. Mutually exclusive.

Kolesar

(31,182 posts)
4. "I don’t have all the answers. " she got that part right
Thu Mar 28, 2013, 09:45 AM
Mar 2013

She is an incurious, isolated moron who is comfortable on the political turf of the gun nuts. But, her father has tons of influence, so she does not have to deal with the real issues of crime.

RandySF

(57,656 posts)
9. What's more disturbing
Thu Mar 28, 2013, 11:54 AM
Mar 2013

Is that she repeats, almost verbatim, the NRA line about getting to the root of violence.

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