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[Cary]

112. I don't buy that "conservative" limited government meme

We elect our officials. We delegate to them the duty to investigate the facts and to make legislation that promotes the general welfare. Then we get to second guess them at the next election.

I can buy the concept that we ought to allow people to do what they want to do, but that's not an over-arching "innocent until proven guilty" proposition. We do the best we can to promote the general welfare. We will not prevent these mass murder tragedies completely and it is irrational to think that we can. A lone nut is going to pull something off here or there. However it's equally irrational to argue that we can't do anything about it because we would be inconveniencing gun owners.

And please don't tell me your gun reactionary friends or compatriots don't throw a shit fit against anyone who tries to hold a serious discussion of the issues. I don't toe the NRA line so what happens whenever I express an opinion or bring up the subject?

You all jump down my throat.

Don't try to tell me you don't and don't project this dysfunction back on me. There's nothing you can say to me that will convince me that I'm not seeing what I am seeing.