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In reply to the discussion: Not Just A Novelty Item: Get to Know the Americans You'd Least Expect to Fancy the Firearm [View all]Eleanors38
(18,318 posts)12. A member of what? The essay is from the "Good" web site, I believe.
If you mean a member of the Liberal Gun Club, not yet. I am still weighing options about which liberal or non-partisan pro-2A group I will join. The beginnings of a gun-use instruction program is a positive in LGC's favor as it indicates some long-term viability. The Blue Steel Democrats seem to be increasingly long-term, but Northwest-oriented.
What do you think of LGC, if this is what you are referring to?
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friendly_iconoclast
Aug 2013
OP
I think astroturfing is more common amongst the pro-control sorts, frankly.
friendly_iconoclast
Aug 2013
#5
"...Most 'liberal' gun groups..." Then you should have ample evidence, right?
Eleanors38
Aug 2013
#9
The majority of drivers operate a car on the road every day or nearly every day
Fumesucker
Aug 2013
#7
Making it all the more important that those that *do* own guns know how to operate them...
friendly_iconoclast
Aug 2013
#14
Being near a gun is more dangerous than not being near one, all else being equal
Fumesucker
Aug 2013
#17
Multi ton machines moving at high speeds under haphazard operation are inherently dangerous
Fumesucker
Aug 2013
#35
"However unlike guns cars do have other uses besides killing living things."
friendly_iconoclast
Aug 2013
#41
By no means are cars remotely as deadly as guns in terms of deaths per hour of actual use
Fumesucker
Aug 2013
#43
What I said was all else being equal being around guns is more dangerous than not being around them
Fumesucker
Aug 2013
#47
DU members owe it to themselves to read this. She has looked at the "gun issue"...
Eleanors38
Aug 2013
#10
I was pro-gun control once upon a time. I went shooting a few times, educate myself.
Nuclear Unicorn
Aug 2013
#18
#1: ALWAYS FOCUS ON EMOTIONAL AND VALUE-DRIVEN ARGUMENTS ABOUT GUN VIOLENCE...
friendly_iconoclast
Aug 2013
#40
I doubt that. If someone is open enough to go beyond their comfort zone...
friendly_iconoclast
Aug 2013
#53