Is it possible to be a progressive DUer and a gun owner?

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110. I did not choose the term gun humper

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I defined it. I offered a definition that one would qualify if his views are closer to the Tea Party than the Democratic Party. I see nothing civil about celebrating a speech where a gun activist tells the parents of slaughtered children that his rights are more important than their dead, that his dead are more important than their dead, that he is more important than their children. I see nothing civil about wanting the acquittal of a man who killed an unarmed black teenager walking home from the store. I see nothing civil about defending SYG laws that are applied on behalf of whites 11 times more than for African Americans, that have led to increased killings of black men so much so that the Office of Civil rights has opened an investigation. I see nothing civil about focusing on my own possessions to the exclusion of everyone else's right to life. There is nothing civilized about justifying the killing of human beings and promoting laws and policies that allow those killings to go unpunished. There is nothing civil about dismissing the deaths of children and suicide victims as statistically irrelevant. The gungeoneer notion of civility is entirely uncivil.

As for the the Tea Party, you can see right here there views are in sync with many of the gun proponents on this site. http://www.nj.com/salem/index.ssf/2013/02/south_jersey_tea_party_group_r_1.html

What gunners here claim to support varies on the day. I have learned that honesty and intellectual integrity is also something that means nothing to several of them. I don't know what version of civility accommodates deception and willful ignorance.

I can think of several more accurate terms than gun humper, less lurid but more descriptive. They, however, would not pass a jury, so I will forgo mentioning them. You might have observed I typically use terms like gunner, gungeoneer, gun proponent, or gun activist.