Reply #152: Then perhaps...

[beevul]

"I'm getting really, really tired of DU'ers who do not support the continuing gun violence in our country being told to "sit down and shut up" by the gun lobby."

Then perhaps you can get them to stop repeating things that are niether true nor applicable to the debate, such as tirades about automatic weapons or anyone suggests "arming everyone".

If someone came into the abortion debate AND expressed opinion about regulation, without knowing what a fetus or a trimester were, I'd happily tell them sit down and shut up, and I'd likely be standing in the same line as you to do it. That the topic happens to be guns doesn't change that principal one iota. That you don't can't or wont see the parallel is unfortunate.

"We have just as much right to our opinions as you do. If you don't think so, perhaps you need to reread some of the other Amendments, specifically the First."

And people have a right to correctly describe those opinions as ignorant or uninformed if they are, and marginalize them if they are, as they have done in this thread. This is new to discussions how exactly?