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NightWatcher

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1. What I find extremely constructive are the over the top, hyperbolic anti gun (owner) threads...

Reply to WilliamPitt (Original post)

Thu Dec 27, 2012, 12:19 PM

Dec 2012

You know, the ones that liken gun owners to baby killers, or make it seem like if you own a gun you are actively waiting to shoot and kill someone, or some other highly moronic opinion.

Constructive debate on the "gun control" issue jumped the shark here about three days after the Newton tragedy and nothing good has come out since, either pro or anti.

We cant agree on guns here, but I'd like to think that most of us can agree that the "gun debate" has been beaten to a pulp and the carcass of the same said horse has been pounded to a mush.

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So many victims. [View all] WilliamPitt Dec 2012 OP

What I find extremely constructive are the over the top, hyperbolic anti gun (owner) threads... NightWatcher Dec 2012 #1

Constructive debate on the gun control issue didn't jump the shark -- ThatPoetGuy Dec 2012 #2

You say, "rabidly pro-gun crowd;" "INSANE;" "OVERTLY RACIST". Yea, that ought to help. AnotherMcIntosh Dec 2012 #27

Nope, wrong on all accounts lark Dec 2012 #6

Yours is a perfect example of the hyperbole that doesn't help the debate NightWatcher Dec 2012 #9

Legal gun owners=sex offenders is the latest one obamanut2012 Dec 2012 #33

I haz a sad WilliamPitt Dec 2012 #3

Will, I never would have pegged you as one who evades rational discussion Bake Dec 2012 #10

There is no rational discussion. WilliamPitt Dec 2012 #14

You're right. There is no rational discussion HERE, anyway. Bake Dec 2012 #17

Asshole. WilliamPitt Dec 2012 #18

Jerk-off. Bake Dec 2012 #19

I thought about it. Consider yourself scolded. Bake Dec 2012 #24

I haz a place to uze that pic Rex Dec 2012 #31

If only the other nine amendments in the Bill of Rights received this much attention. yardwork Dec 2012 #4

+1000 Chorophyll Dec 2012 #5

You and I may not agree on much else, but we agree this. RC Dec 2012 #7

The irony is Derp. WilliamPitt Dec 2012 #16

Got it! yardwork Dec 2012 #20

Oh dam, how do I rec a post a zillion times!!! Rex Dec 2012 #30

I'm not sorry for any of them. They've had it their way for far too long. MichiganVote Dec 2012 #8

If you've got the votes to back it up, go for it. Bake Dec 2012 #11

If you've got the balls to show up here when the next semi automatic goes off in a school MichiganVote Dec 2012 #22

I've got the balls to show up here and disagree with the gun-grabbers. Bake Dec 2012 #23

No actually I don't want to take all guns away. Semi's and their huge clips-yes. MichiganVote Dec 2012 #25

All 50-round clips should be banned. AnotherMcIntosh Dec 2012 #28

"Gun-grabbers"? JuniperLea Dec 2012 #26

You're not being "constructive." That's their new buzzword... alcibiades_mystery Dec 2012 #12

"Gun nut cretins?" Really? Bake Dec 2012 #32

derp derp derp derp derp derp derp derp derp derp derp derp derp derp derp OneTenthofOnePercent Dec 2012 #13

You're doing it wrong. WilliamPitt Dec 2012 #15

From some of the stuff I've read, you would think Wayne LaPierre is a victim in this whole thing. madinmaryland Dec 2012 #21

He used to be a Democrat. AnotherMcIntosh Dec 2012 #29