Reply #7: Hear, hear.

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Or perhaps: "There, there.". (Or now: "Here, here.".)

(I see that the issue is resolved -- both posts are moved. -- Good!)

And, perhaps, the political issue to consider is whether Democrats should rethink their position on further federal level gun controls. (This is rather different than "gun controls"-"no gun controls".) Or we can continue on with a large portion of this country associating "Democrat" with "anti-gun", (even when this is not the case), hoping somehow to "enlighten" these "misinformed" people -- or not giving a damn about the votes of many people for whom this is the issue.

Collapsing complicated policy issues down into simple yes-no choices is playing right into the trap (of dumbed down discussion and a false framework for that discussion -- a framework that "frames" the issues the neocon way, or to their benefit) laid by the neocons over decades.