Reply #114: All Good Points

[qdemn7]

Especially this part:

Stop wasting taxpayer dollars fighting things like consenting adult porn
(part of the problem the South Park crowd has, I suspect, is that they see too many so-called "Liberals" out there finger-wagging and advocating things like censorship, just as the Right Wing does.. so they probably figure that at least the Right Wing will give them a tax cut in the process)

We have our own little Cabal of anti-"pornstituion" zealots right here.

You miss one point: Guns. If the Democratic Party Leadership would STFU about Gun Control, and admit and recognize the Second Amendment as an INDIVIDUAL RIGHT, not a Collective Right one we would be way ahead. Many men will simply not vote for ANY candidate who advocates Gun Control.

The Idelogy of Gun Ownership and Gun Control in the United States

Underlying the gun control struggle is a fundamental division in our nation. The intensity of passion on this issue suggests to me that we are experiencing a sort of low-grade war going on between two alternative views of what America is and ought to be. On the one side are those who take bourgeois Europe as a model of a civilized society: a society just, equitable, and democratic; but well ordered, with the lines of authority clearly drawn, and with decisions made rationally and correctly by intelligent men for the entire nation. To such people, hunting is atavistic, personal violence is shameful, and uncontrolled gun ownership is a blot upon civilization. Although armed self-defense may be legally permissible in American legal culture, some gun control advocates consider it immoral.

In short, gun control may sometimes be a symbol of opposition to violence, or of opposition to the kinds of persons who are considered to be gun owners.