Gun Control & RKBA
In reply to the discussion: Ban all Guns!! [View all]DonP
(6,185 posts)Please don't confuse them with facts or actual data from an unbiased source.
Just leave them and their built in prejudices alone, so they can simply hate and demean something (and somebody) with a "clear conscience".
No different thinking than Climate Deniers, Fundies and racists from the '50's and '60's. People who "just know" from their "common sense" what's right for them, society and certainly for you and me too.
But on DU you're allowed to express those kind of sentiments if it's about guns and gun owners. On DU2 Skinner rode herd on it with his demand for civility, but here it's "slipped off the choke chain" it seems.
The more gun control, or should I say "gun safety", loses at the ballot box, in the legislatures and in the courts, the angrier, more desperate and spiteful they become.
Now we're hearing another round of "Blood in the Streets" about the new DC carry laws.
How many times have we heard that from the other side? 15, 20 at least, and it never, ever comes to pass, so they move the goal posts and conflate gang shootings with CCW people.
I'm past taking any of it personally most of the time and I can tune out most of it. The "You gun people want more dead babies" stuff still pisses me off, but for the most part I file them with the DU poster in GD who wanted drones to kill any gun owners that didn't turn in their guns to the government immediately after Sandy Hook.
I just sit back and focus on winning individual issues in local town halls and public forums when the opportunities arise. They sit back and post and wait for Bloomberg's next check.