Gun Control & RKBA
In reply to the discussion: A recent gun nut talking point. [View all]pablo_marmol
(2,375 posts)The member simply stated that the public wasn't buying into your belief system -- as evidenced by the rise in female gun ownership, gun sales in general, and a long list legislative victories for gun rights. From that you dishonestly reported his position as the SOOOO boring "gunz for everyone" strawman.
Meanwhile, you're so utterly uneducated that you're unaware that liberal criminologists James Wright, Peter Rossi and Gary Kleck all started their criminology careers assuming a relationship (as you do) between the raw numbers of guns in the country and gun violence. All three -- and many others -- have reversed their positions as they actually studied the evidence. But facts like these don't matter to you. You know better. The arrogance astonishes!
Absolutely nothing you have posted has produced a hint that you've done the slightest bit of honest research on the subject of gun violence. Yet you have the audacity to slur fellow Democrats, and show not the slightest ability to confront your own biases.
You're right......you didn't try to stuff words into my mouth - but by virtue of the fact that you failed to address any of the points I had made I felt compelled to conclude that I was being lumped into your "gun-humping" "NRA-loving" crowd.
You really make me laugh when you order gun owners who you believe "are desperate to protect you and your family" to stay away from your family. As if gun owners give a crap about you! Additionally, you lack the education to realize that the large numbers of families who are armed are IN FACT protecting those who aren't - since in the majority of cases criminals can't be sure of who is armed and who is not. In the UK, "hot" burglaries, or burglaries where the residents are in the dwelling at the time of the break-in are four times higher that in the U.S. Why? Because the criminal knows that there's little chance he'll be looking down the barrel of a gun -- not so in the U.S.
As Kang Colby stated --- "gun control" is done. Put a fork in it. You can kick and scream about it all you want, slur honest fellow Democrats all you want while misrepresenting their positions. Nobody really cares about your tantrums.
Edited to add: Why don't you show the courage of your convictions and write Charles E. Cobb Jr. a letter informing him that he's an "NRA apologist". (Author of This Nonviolent Stuff'l Get You Killed - How Guns Made the Civil Rights Movement Possible)
http://www.amazon.com/This-Nonviolent-Stuffll-Get-Killed/dp/0465033105/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1438414690&sr=1-1&keywords=this+nonviolent+stuff%27ll+get+you+killed