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Gun Control & RKBA

friendly_iconoclast

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15. Intransigence is what reduced *you* lot to political near-irrelevance. It works, and works well.

Reply to upaloopa (Reply #3)

Thu Aug 2, 2012, 04:40 AM

Aug 2012

You want compromise? Fine. What are YOU prepared to give up?

You also forget that the NRA has only four million members- but their are eighty million gun owners in the US, and they vote at quite a high rate.

To think the NRA and the Republicans exclusively drive gun politics is a strategic error gun prohibitionists (and you ARE prohibitionists, despite the honeyed words you offer when
you think we've forgotten your history) seem intent on committing over and over again...

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Myths and Facts About Gun Violence in America [View all] SecularMotion Aug 2012 OP

Joyce Foundation. Nuff said n/t shadowrider Aug 2012 #1

NRA, more than enough said for organisation backing guns and other right wing causes. Hoyt Aug 2012 #2

That's a very lame reply. No facts this time? No statistics? upaloopa Aug 2012 #3

Sorry aint going to happen Missycim Aug 2012 #8

Stare Decisis NT Callisto32 Aug 2012 #17

Thanks Missycim Aug 2012 #19

Legal latin can be like that. Callisto32 Aug 2012 #24

The NRA loses a peace(sic) of it's power every time their(sic) is mass killings Trunk Monkey Aug 2012 #10

I think you mean more anti-gun activist justices. NewMoonTherian Aug 2012 #13

Intransigence is what reduced *you* lot to political near-irrelevance. It works, and works well. friendly_iconoclast Aug 2012 #15

"your intransigence is what will bring gun restrictions to your door." HALO141 Aug 2012 #20

Typical RW rebuttal: Don't like the facts? Attack the source! baldguy Aug 2012 #16

its funny you should say that, Missycim Aug 2012 #18

Says the guy who derides any non-VPC source krispos42 Aug 2012 #21

Something about pot, kettle. Hold on, I'm thinking n/t shadowrider Aug 2012 #25

More lies, damned lies and statistics NT rDigital Aug 2012 #27

A poll that shows public sentiment on the issue of guns.. virginia mountainman Aug 2012 #4

I guess you missed this SecularMotion Aug 2012 #5

Bob Shrum said recently... virginia mountainman Aug 2012 #6

What other polls? Clames Aug 2012 #7

..by republican Frank Luntz, whose motto is, "It's not what you say, it's what people hear." n/t X_Digger Aug 2012 #11

Thanks for making one of your very rare appearances in "conversations" you've started. NT Simo 1939_1940 Aug 2012 #22

the Kochs of gun control gejohnston Aug 2012 #9

Who'd know more about the myths of gun violence than the Joyce Foundation? DonP Aug 2012 #12

Let's take a closer look at those myths and rebuttals. GreenStormCloud Aug 2012 #14

Hello Captain Obvious sarisataka Aug 2012 #23

Joyce Foundation = Gun prohibitionists NT rDigital Aug 2012 #26