Gun Control & RKBA
In reply to the discussion: Pistol grips on long guns, and rifle crime in general. [View all]ellisonz
(27,711 posts)What you've proven is that you have a substantial amount of anger towards those who disagree with you and will go to great lengths to make a rhetorical argument against them. Nothing more.
"It is very disturbing to me that someone can be so convinced of something they can't actually demonstrate because their perception filters prevent them from actually reading, thinking, understanding, and applying reason of any kind. You're just the sort of person who behaves the way you do only because the internet allows you to get away with it. If we were face-to-face, you would actually feel the shame of deliberately refusing to back up your own assertions. But the internet allows you to believe you are something you are not."
Oh please...you're the one insisting that I play your game to prove some vacuous point about how reasonable the gun culture truly is when there are tens of millions of educated adult Americans who disagree with that perception. Are they all wrong? Am I wrong to note that this is not a zero-sum game of right and wrong? That this is a policy issue requiring an approach of compromise, but to deny the significance of the effect of gun violence upon victims and their family is to deny their very humanity. I have no such desire to play some game with a person who can't appreciate the basic issues at stake and instead seeks to play a game in order to prove himself right. It's like dueling, and I have no wish to do it. I have no desire to entertain your fantasies about having some sort of showdown with you.
"Thing is, I know to a certainty that you would behave very differently in person... especially if you knew you were being video-recorded. Assuming you are no coward, I'll let you know when I can come around your area. We can talk terms and make a nice lunch out of the occasion or something."
Case in point. Please enjoy an educational video about how arguments such as "You're a coward and are wrong" tend to play out in real life. I stand up for what I believe in; always have, always will.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullying
Do you act this way in GD?