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In reply to the discussion: Not Just A Novelty Item: Get to Know the Americans You'd Least Expect to Fancy the Firearm [View all]petronius
(26,635 posts)12. A very good read, thanks for posting! I really admire people who try to
explore new ground, as this author did, and there's a lot of food for thought. Two segments that definitely resonated were when one of her interviewees said:
I find it very odd that I have to make a political choice between people whose politics support all of the other civil liberties, or people who support gun ownership as a civil liberty, but none of the others. I mean its a very odd political divide that doesnt make a lot of sense, isnt it?
and where she acknowledges:
My own rhetoric had become a shorthand in which merely owning a gun threw a person into a camp of those who were cavalier with deadly weapons, whose personal rights trumped public safety, and who were politically alien to me.
But following from that second quote, if I was to criticize the article I'd say she actually gives short-shrift in a way to pro-control advocates - the interview with the Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America person isn't really fleshed out, and she doesn't quite make clear that a lot of gun control advocacy (much of which we liberal gun owners actually support) falls short of "ban 'em and grab 'em." While it wasn't really the focus of the piece, a little discussion of what reasonable, broadly-supportable policies might look like would have added to an already good article...
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friendly_iconoclast
Aug 2013
OP
Sorry. They don't exist. That's a fictional group. A figment of someone's imagination.
Common Sense Party
Aug 2013
#3
They're also cackling that those they've purged aren't responding to them.
friendly_iconoclast
Aug 2013
#7
People respond People who conform with the articles of faith of the group
friendly_iconoclast
Aug 2013
#38
I'm confused. What group are you speaking of, Bansalot? May be a reason for that?
Eleanors38
Aug 2013
#24
And yet you have enough faith in capitalism to be willing to let its managerial arm...
friendly_iconoclast
Aug 2013
#39
Your criticism is appropriate. In a sense, the "Moms Demand" group may be getting short shrift...
Eleanors38
Aug 2013
#23
I think I phrased that a bit badly: I have no idea whether the "Moms Demand" group
petronius
Aug 2013
#33