Gun Control & RKBA
In reply to the discussion: I think this paragraph from The New Yorker really sums up the gun control debate here on DU [View all]NYC_SKP
(68,644 posts)Further, he fails miserably by using that same old specious claim that the majority of Americans feel a certain way, and what that way is, and then lumps all others together into a group defined by people who would what, want no laws whatsoever?
That's just mad ranting.
In truth, the majority of American agree that there should be limits and controls not just of "weapons intended only to kill en masse" (what that means the hack won't say), but of all guns.
Hardly anyone wants guns to be made, sold, and possessed without some restrictions.
Thus, it's a waste of otherwise useful space in a fairly good magazine.
The author is an stupid ass.
Then, he goes on to describe these boogie men, "the gun crazy think about guns all the time", which is simply stupid and narrow minded and kind of pointless. There are few nuts out there, no doubt about it, but they don't wield enough power to have much influence. The folks who resist overreaching gun control are among that first larger group, that majority, and they know better than to give up their rights for a false sense of security.
As to your assertion that the paragraph you cite somehow sums up the debate on DU, I'm sure you don't mean to say that RKBA supporters are like that second group, do you?
I have held you in higher esteem than the author, so I don't think you mean that.
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