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In reply to the discussion: Would you be in favor of DU banning all positive posting about guns? [View all]Uncle Joe
(65,214 posts)keeping open debate pro or con re: guns in our society and having faith in the merits of your own argument to win out.
I spoke of the power of the "principles" behind the First Amendment in regards to open debate and you tried to turn that around insinuating that I didn't know D.U. wasn't a government entity.
I have news for you open debate in a democracy and the gun issue in the U.S. are critical issues.
I posted at least once if not twice up-thread that guns in the U.S. were a critical issue.
My original post was in response to the OP's assertion that we should hide debate re: the gun issue if the OP didn't favor that side of the argument instead of debating it head-on.
Anyone with a lick of common sense could tell that I was speaking of critical issues (debate, changing the world and guns) on my very first couple of posts, but I had to spell that out for you because you threw up a bunch of B.S.
If people have to wade through 50,000 messages on WWE, Major League Baseball, Knitting, Cooking, Jai-Alai, Carpentry, Zymurgy, etc. to get to the single political OP they might want to discuss, they are going to give up.
and then claim that "I was moving the goalpost."
Your lack of reading comprehension or willful ignorance would be be funny if it wasn't so sad.