Reply #87: I hope you don't feel as if I want to "silence" you...

[benEzra]

It's quite clear that gun nuts will do ANYTHING to silence those that they disagree with. One ubiquitous tactic I've seen in this forum is what I like to refer to as the "I know lots more about guns than you do, so you should just shut up and stop talking about the topic", argument.

Actually, I don't want to silence you. It's just that if the discussion isn't grounded in the data, it's just rhetoric vs. rhetoric.

The Brady Campaign and the VPC intentionally play to the general public's ignorance of the technical issues involved in order to advance their agenda. That is in no way a criticism of non-gunnies, just an observation. Debate on this issue would be a lot more civil (and productive) if it weren't for the gross technical errors being propagated by the prohibitionists.

(Please see the thread "Dems and the Gun Issue--Now What?" for a bit more on that topic, if you're interested.)

Again, I don't want to silence you. It's just frustrating when people push to restrict MY rights based on basic misunderstandings and/or fearmongering by anti-gun activists.