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In reply to the discussion: I think this paragraph from The New Yorker really sums up the gun control debate here on DU [View all]GGJohn
(9,951 posts)106. You just keep digging yourself deeper and deeper with your elitist bullshit.
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I think this paragraph from The New Yorker really sums up the gun control debate here on DU [View all]
Electric Monk
Jan 2015
OP
Those folks just fake it for votes....no serious intellectual would touch a firearm.
ileus
Jan 2015
#64
The folks who claim the last election was lost due to gun control shows you how much they have guns
Fred Sanders
Jan 2015
#125
When you have guns on the brain there is no point debating, arguing I am good with.
Fred Sanders
Jan 2015
#128
No civilian has much use for machines made to kill, guns, thank you for acknowledging that.
Fred Sanders
Jan 2015
#71
The author disqualifies himself the moment he uses terms like "fanatic", "gun crazy", and the like.
NYC_SKP
Jan 2015
#7
Not really. Gun control is possible, it's already here. And we do this for your children and theirs
NYC_SKP
Jan 2015
#13
About as much detail as they deserve for their never ending demands for proof and links....
Fred Sanders
Jan 2015
#67
Well, this is their "safe haven" from the rest of DU, you would think that would give them a clue...
Fred Sanders
Jan 2015
#79
and a nationally organized gun amnesty for folks to return unwanted firearms.
gejohnston
Jan 2015
#85
It's about gun trolls on DU, so it's about discussing gun control reform in a supportive environment
Electric Monk
Jan 2015
#139
If anything, its a bit meta, but GCRA doesn't have a hard and fast rule about meta threads
Electric Monk
Jan 2015
#141
Would you like me to call you a whaaambulance? That Group is not yours, nor is it for you. nt
Electric Monk
Jan 2015
#143
You are like a Catholic trying to control what can be posted in the Atheists Group.
Electric Monk
Jan 2015
#145
You are like a Catholic trying to control what can be posted in the Atheists Group, indeed.
Electric Monk
Jan 2015
#147
Yeah, when people like you make wild accusations, then we do ask for links and proof,
GGJohn
Jan 2015
#89
Eliminating suicides would require eliminating depression, you got the answer to eliminating
Fred Sanders
Jan 2015
#74
Maybe we just need more guns, already we are the highest gun ownership per capita
randys1
Jan 2015
#26
To protect folks from so many guns, we need MORE guns...the logical fail is painful.
Fred Sanders
Jan 2015
#44
I almost stopped reading this piece of agitprop when in the beginning of the second paragraph
branford
Jan 2015
#28
Indeed, it makes our case like most other unsubstantive anti-gun articles posted hereabouts.
NYC_SKP
Jan 2015
#32
No need to cast the NRA as the "tempting" devil, whatever that means, the NRA does that well all
Fred Sanders
Jan 2015
#45
"Defense of the NRA" in this group has been largely in *your* posts recently
friendly_iconoclast
Jan 2015
#47
What are you going on about now, spending time concocting a web of rather creepy guilt by
Fred Sanders
Jan 2015
#69
The NRA is not evil, the men who run it are. Wayne Lapierre....need I say more?
Fred Sanders
Jan 2015
#70
It certainly does- it is an excellent example of 'false consensus effect' in action
friendly_iconoclast
Jan 2015
#46
They just will not admit that guns are designed and intended to be used as killing machines....after
Fred Sanders
Jan 2015
#116
Your "NRA" (or rather, your perception of it) is no different than Jack Van Impe's "Satan"...
friendly_iconoclast
Jan 2015
#120
Killing machine is to inamiate object as nuclear bomb is to hunk of metal.
Fred Sanders
Jan 2015
#123
That's a lot of words just to say, "I'm smart and everyone who disagrees with me is dumb --and evil"
Nuclear Unicorn
Jan 2015
#124
I think *some* of the "ULGG" sorts may be trolling-it's a hard question, For Sure
friendly_iconoclast
Jan 2015
#161
It's a long term problem, not just a flash in the pan. It's naive to think it's not still happening.
Electric Monk
Jan 2015
#162
kicking this for the gun nuts, because I know they won't like being reminded that they are gun nuts.
Electric Monk
Mar 2015
#163
I love the smell of cheap stereotyping and self-righteousness in the morning
friendly_iconoclast
Mar 2015
#164
Culture war still smells like a skidmark, even if a NYer writer indulges. nt
Eleanors38
Mar 2015
#189
Kleck? Yeah, no bias there, LOL, and what does your quote even have to do with the OP?
Electric Monk
Mar 2015
#175
And of course Kleck has responded to his critics, but you'll never read his rebuttals.
pablo_marmol
Mar 2015
#176
Thanks for further proving my point with your "I know you are, but what am I?"
Electric Monk
Mar 2015
#184
Chanting "NRA talking point(s)" is neither a rebuttal nor a saving throw
friendly_iconoclast
Mar 2015
#182
"You guys are proving the point from the OP, ironically, that it's a relatively small group
pablo_marmol
Mar 2015
#183