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Originally Posted by KirStang
While it may be true that Obama shares a belief "in line" with the majority of americans--have people stopped to think that--the majority belief is inherently baloney?
I can't tell you the many times I tell my classmates that I want to go shooting--only to be followed up with questions pertaining to violence.
I'll concede, guns can do some dastardly things. But the majority opinion that guns = bad, is driven by media, namely movies, biased media reports, false information, and the desire to sensationalize guns and resultant deaths.
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I think you're skirting the issue about majority support for specific public policies by bringing up personal anecdotes.
Granted, many among the American public may not be as sophisticated on guns as those practitioners....but the doesnt mean their support of reasonable gun control is baloney.
As to the false information from media, etc....it is matched by false information from the NRA.
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Originally Posted by Crompsin
Hmm, I sincerely hope that you're not using the completely irrelevant detail of the new President Elect's middle name to demean gun advocates by suggesting that we're foolish enough to relate said man with the negative connotations of a deceased Iraqi dictator / bastard and a popular world religion that has been horribly maligned by paranoid "Joe Sixpacks" and the 24/7 numb, violence-'n-fear-driven American infotainment product production machine (media).
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I believe Baraka's comment was in response to an earlier post (#115) by a gun advocate referencing Hussein Obama.
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Originally Posted by scout
.... I posted this because soon reenacting the Clinton "assualt weapons ban" will be the "common sense approach" to gun control. Funny how this argument never materialized during the election process but as soon as Hussein Obama is elected every gun banner in the lower 48 us jumping on the band wagon once again. It's beginning to feel like 1994 all over again.
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