Reply #213: This is nothing but hate

[shrula]

...and serves no one's cause, unless you are so full of hate for anyone who disagrees with you that you will do anything, no matter how immoral, so silence them.

If Obama can talk to the leader of Iran with the hope of reconciliation (unlikely), then you and I should be able to talk civilly about less weighty matters than the destruction of the US or Israel.

What you are promoting is fascism. Do you really think that's the best answer? You really want the government to shut down all dissenting views? What happens when the government later changes its views to something other than the ones you hold? You have then hypothetically given it the power to shut you down. Oops. Do you know anything about the Bolshevik Revolution?

Anyone who would detonate a dirty bomb had disastrous, irreparable malfunctions long before he/she tuned in to Fox News, or CNN, or a liberal or conservative blog, etc. Remember, there are extreme left-wingers out there for whom YOU are not liberal enough. Maybe liberal enough to detonate a dirty bomb, posing as a conservative to discredit conservatives and foment public opinion against them. See how that works? I just turned your own words against you to make a point. The left and right wings form a circle, curving downward left and right until they meet at the bottom, where people will use any motivation to promote violence. Are those people liberal or are they conservative? My point is that it doesn't matter. I'm not suggesting either scenario would happen, but a terrorist's political affiliation or religion is really irrelevant. Mass murder is mass murder and must be prevented. I hope at least as strongly as you do to prevent terrorism from happening anywhere. I know a lot of gun owners but not a single one who advocates the violent overthrow of the government or harming any citizen.

Can we please stick to plausibility? All this conjecture, hate and exaggeration serves no one.