I'm starting to believe that much of the gun debate is about something else than guns.

[AnotherMcIntosh]

6. So 1) you can't support your claim about DU posts with links, 2) you speculate that the post that

you now allege seeing "once or twice" may have been posted by "right-wing trolls," 3) you equate your unsupported statement (i.e., "Others romanticize gun possession based on some sentimental idea about 'the founding fathers', or peddle crazy fantasies such that 'armed citizens would have stopped Hitler'.&quot with a slightly different claim that there are DU posters who have filed posts with "a similar tone."

That "similar tone," you now say, is either (a) "the insistance that the 2nd ammendment is an absolute" or (b) the claim that gun ownership is an 'essential freedom'."

Since you don't have any links to support your original statement but now say that there are DU posters who have filed posts with "a similar tone," and have, as one example, "insisted that the 2nd ammendment is an absolute," do you have any links to support that statement? Somehow, I seemed to have missed such posts with such insistence.

Or is this another case of seeing "such posts on DU once or twice"? Or could this be another instance where different posts were filed that were "less pronounced but strike a similar tone"?

I'm not sure what good it does to refer to any DU posters as "right-wing trolls." When posting an OP to elicit comments, why not just post supporting links to supporting statements?