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In reply to the discussion: If it's about guns, cool. If it's about people, count me out. [View all]cthulu2016
(10,960 posts)The taunting and name-calling and such are a problem on both sides.
But, based on my DU experience (everyone has their own DU experience, since none of us read everything) the most puerile behavior that is designed to block discussion rather than facilitate it, comes from a (probably small and unrepresentative) segment of the anti-gun side who wants to ban a point of view on a website as if that would somehow make the world a safer place.
And since I do favor gun control, but am deeply ambivalent about it because of the weighty issues of autonomy and rights involved, I am personally most offended by un-nuanced and, to my eyes, ugly arguments made by people who are on "my side."
I think we all feel a special pang when we see our own general views distorted into something nasty.