Here is when I bought my first gun

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305. Question for you: Are there Democratic talking points? Gun control talking points?

Are they all true? Or may we discount them just because they are "talking points?"

Saying a particular assertion is false because it is an NRA, or anybody else's, talking point is a fallacious argument that deserves NO MERIT WHATSOEVER, becuase it does not respond to the substance of what is asserted.

You dismiss anything you don't like, apparently, as an NRA talking point, as if that automatically makes it false. If that makes you FEEL better, fine, but it won't convince voters.

I hug my precious ones EVERY SINGLE DAY: MY FAMILY. Not my guns. The LOTR reference just makes you sound like a geek, and it is condescending as well (and, by the way, sounds suspiciously like a "gun-grabber talking point," but more on that in a moment).

Plenty of DUers want to ban all private gun ownership, and they have just as much access to their lawmakers as I do. Some of them have EXPLICITLY stated "let's START with an AW ban, and then get the rest later." Right here in DU/GD. Are they fringe? Maybe so. Do I think anybody's coming to take my .357 or my 9mm? Not today, and probably not tomorrow. After that? I don't know. But I do know that I have the RIGHT and the OBLIGATION to speak up and try to express my reasonable, rational position to counter those loudest voices here that want to ban and confiscate all guns.

Maybe you're one of those, maybe not. You seem to spout a lot of their "talking points," which according to your own logic (not mine) makes you suspect.

But typically, you STILL haven't responded to the SUBSTANCE of my one single assertion about law enforcement. You simply try to move the goal posts or resort to Lord of the Rings references and tell me I live in a "fantasy life." You even call me seditious! I guess that's what one does when one cannot respond with a substantive argument.

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