Gun Control & RKBA
In reply to the discussion: Our SOP says... [View all]It appears to me that since those posts have not been hidden, they were not the personal attacks you interpreted them as. I have in the past had a number of posts to gunners hidden, so the notion that pro-gun control posts won't be hidden is false. I have observed that of late jurors more easily hide gunner posts than others, but that, I think, reflects their exasperation with certain members or positions.
You reproduced that delete amendment and insisted I was lying when I explained my position on the matter. That was in one of the threads on the Colorado magazine size limits. You also produced it here as an example of an extreme view, when in fact my views are far closer to the President's and the majority of the Democratic Party. You did so despite he fact I explained my views to you.
So you admit you treat all gun control activists with scorn and go on to try to justify why. You want to pretend the effects of gun violence are not important. Deaths of children are why we argue for gun control. Human life is all that matters. You would like us to pretend that is not at issue because you find the position inconvenient. Too bad. Guns kill children, women, and men. That is what they are designed for and gun proliferation is the reason why the US has the highest homicide rate in the First World. Pretending one's views have no relation to that is tantamount to supporting a war, like in Iraq, and pretending one has nothing to do with the resulting casualties, or supporting cuts in health care and food stamps and pretending one has nothing to do with the resulting poverty and hardship. One leads to the other. Guns kill those people. It is the very heart of the issue. Politics involves a series of moral choices. I choose human rights and human life over profits and guns. My sense of social justice makes that imperative.
I could not live with myself if I adopted the positions or coldness toward victims of gun violence that it takes to earn your respect. Social justice is far more important to me. You find that objectionable. That is entirely your problem, and, I would assert, a very serious one.