Gun Control & RKBA
In reply to the discussion: We need a Pro-RKBA group on DU [View all]apocalypsehow
(12,751 posts)Last edited Sun Sep 2, 2012, 04:08 PM - Edit history (1)
agenda, but this absurd stretch to pretend that conservatives are the major supporters of gun control again rears it's silly head.
1. George Will is not some big supporter of gun control. Neither was George Wallace. Bloomberg is a liberal independent, not a Republican. Nixon has been dead since 1994, and out of office since 1974. It is to laugh that you're even bringing him up.
2. Private gun ownership is not the issue: so-called "RKBA" and the easy access to firearms on the civilian market is the issue, and you well know it.
3. If you really want to play this absurd game of how many Republican politicians and conservative notables support some weak version of gun control - a tiny handful - versus how many Democratic politicians and liberal commentators and progressive notables support gun control, bring it on. I could make a list that fills this forum of the latter, and I could make a further list that could fill this forum of Republican politicians and conservative notables who support so-called "RKBA."
Why do you "pro gun progressives" continue to pretend that there is some huge group of conservatives that support sensible gun control when you know for a fact that there is not? To ask the question is to answer it, and that answer is disruption, pure and simple. You know it to be untrue, know that the time it takes to debunk it diverts the debate into other channels, and delight in the disruption such an absurd claim causes. That's the bottom line: disruption.
Edit: typo.