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In reply to the discussion: It's very simple: If you want new gun control laws, you need the cooperation of legal gun owners. [View all]Eleanors38
(18,318 posts)And I ALWAYS go opposite to an attacker's wishes; that has held me in good stead for over 60 years. It doesn't matter to me one way or the other that you gave up your gun(s), as I have no intention of doing so until I am incompetent to use them.
What really bothers me is that the pariah school of political change has now come out on DU. It is nothing more than good Ol' American Protestant Shaming attached to prohibition. Sure takes the luster off liberalism's image of a broad education, critical thought and tolerance. And you know something? It isn't going to work. The mere fact that controller/banners must have a protected my-way-or-highway group is growing proof of that.
I continue to work for a time (and I think it will be soon) when reasonable people here and elsewhere will come up with a truly reasonable approach to violence in this country. Perhaps you will see your way clear to help out in that regard. No one will insult you if you do.