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In reply to the discussion: New Concealed Carry poll [View all]Eleanors38
(18,318 posts)Let's be clear: Your efforts here are not to "stop murders." They are efforts to ban guns, and attack fellow DUers. It IS a culture war and I think you know it. I think the credence you give "hurting feelings" is a curious insight into your real motives. It still isn't working.
Show my post regarding gun safes.
This is a good opportunity to broach a topic and a little speculation. I believe the fury and animosity (which you seem to concede) goes WAY beyond concern for crime rates, beyond even mass murders in school. There seems to be a lot of scapegoating for frustrations some "libersls" are experiencing. The anger over NSA revelations, the continued opposition to the ACA, the side-lining of lefties within the Party, the go-ahead for shale pipelines, firefights over racism on DU, the rape of women in the military, the continued dominance of the GOP even when they are not in voting power, the shredding of reproductive choice, the build-up for more war, etc.
Don't you think all this underwrites the selection of pro-2A fellow DUers as a group to go after? There is too much hatred (really by a comparative few on this site) to be explained by gun policy. I have noticed, parenthetically, a thread in Second Wave feminism where men are seen as using guns to effect dominance over women, using hunted animals as metaphors for women.
What are your thoughts?