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In reply to the discussion: Breaking: 2 Killed, 1 Injured by Man Armed with Rifle at Mall Near Portland (20-60 Shots Reported) [View all]apocalypsehow
(12,751 posts)country. That is the inevitable result of the Blueing of America thanks to changing demographics and an increasingly educated set of young people coming of voting age, and voting anti-GOP/NRA.
"There are a couple books you should read"
Uh-huh. Hofstadter was required reading my freshman year of college, many moons ago. If you had actually read his works - knew what you were talking about, in other words - you wouldn't dream of posting this reply to me with links to even Wikipedia synopses of his works. That you have tells any one who has, like, really read Hofstadter that you haven't. Read him, that is. That you claim you have, and are staking so much of your credibility on it for your purposes here, is simply icing on the cake.
But you haven't and you don't - read him in depth or know what you're talking about regarding his work - so what we get is internet bravado like your reply here.
Pro-tip to "friendly_iconoclast": go check a book of Hofstadter's essays and collected works out of the nearest library to you; read it; and then...well, find another line of argument to pitch on DU about guns from the "RKBA" perspective, I reckon. As anyone who had ever actually read Hofstadter would....
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Edit: typos.