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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)But I mentioned the insults because they have a corrosive effect on dialogue.
It is worth noting that you and several others seem to have a particularly interest in how insults, invective, etc. pesonally affect gun-owners. This seems to be in keeping with the stigmatization strategy the more extremist controller/banners have undertaken. And it seems also to be more important than doing anything about violence and school kids getting massacred; I mean, the insults seem to be THE policy, now.
One of the painted beauties of the I-net is folks can use mean-spirited efforts in anonymity. But when a pattern develops, the wider audience (even on DU) can see what the stigmatizers' main priorities are. It's still a mass-media model where folks can make judgments about the authenticity of argument, or lack thereof when the objective is to get a rise out of someone. Anger ain't compassion, critique ain't yo mama's boots. What's the expression? "Small and stunted?"