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Showing Original Post only (View all)I don't think a rational debate on gun control is currently possible in the United States [View all]
Not with the "gun culture" in this country and the paranoid/spiteful right-wing ideology associated with it.
You do have to wonder about people who think their freedom depends on having the ability to (potentially, possibly, theoretically-right?) shoot people, or who honestly believe that they have the right (let alone the likelihood of them being able) to violently overthrow the United States government ( )
I think a rational debate, with empirical data, is desperately needed on this issue, but we're not getting that, and we won't get it, anytime soon.
-My $0.02.
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YoungDemCA
Nov 2014
OP
As I recall you believe Moms Demand Action is a CIA psyops type organization and
flamin lib
Nov 2014
#3
That might have been me, except that I say James OKeefe types are walking around Krogers...
NYC_SKP
Nov 2014
#64
Here's a thread tarted by 1 DU'er but after I commented our esteemed colleague Hoyt inveighed --
Nuclear Unicorn
Nov 2014
#63
I don't think rationality will ever be possible in the United States, period.
Ampersand Unicode
Nov 2014
#8
All I know is that if Democrats take heavy losses across the board tomorrow...
derby378
Nov 2014
#10
If by "rational debate" you mean "civil and thoughtful discussion of the issue" then yes,
benEzra
Nov 2014
#12
No my little dingleberry. I point out how those who try are treated here. I only give as good as I
flamin lib
Nov 2014
#16
Its not a chicken or egg situation. The hostility to even the most modest suggestions
flamin lib
Nov 2014
#28
You insult people and then use their taking offense at being insulted as justification for insulting
Nuclear Unicorn
Nov 2014
#58
Not with the "control culture" in this country and the willful ignorance associated with it.
pablo_marmol
Nov 2014
#15
The slippery slope fallacy is what the NRA used to defeat a bill outlawing the sale of dog and cat
flamin lib
Nov 2014
#29
If you had *any* ability to confront your biases you'd see that there is some merit
pablo_marmol
Nov 2014
#59
A great body of empirical data exists now, it's not even about Constitutional interpretation.
NYC_SKP
Nov 2014
#21