Gun Control & RKBA
Related: About this forumGun nuts misunderstand meaning of Constitution
How people like you can fly your American flags and display your patriotic bumper stickers and talk about the need for private citizens to have assault rifles to use against the U.S. government blows my mind.
You have apparently swallowed (hook, line, etc.) what is spewed by people whose main interest is in making money off of your paranoia. You have apparently not paid one bit of attention to the rational arguments made against those people.
http://www.heraldonline.com/2013/02/01/4587023/gun-nuts-misunderstand-meaning.html#storylink=cpy
Flashmann
(2,140 posts)Seems to me to be a similar disconnect and mind set as the people who paste "Buy American-Build American" bumper stickers all over the backs of their Subarus,that I used to see a lot of when living in the Aspen-Snowmass area.....
Some people just don't get it,and never will.......
SecularMotion
(7,981 posts)In 1989, Subaru and then-partner Isuzu opened a joint factory in Lafayette, Indiana, called Subaru-Isuzu Automotive, Inc., or SIA, which initially manufactured the Subaru Legacy and Isuzu Rodeo. In 2001, Isuzu sold their stake in the plant to FHI for $1 due to flagging sales and it was renamed Subaru of Indiana Automotive Inc. SIA has been designated a backyard wildlife Habitat by the National Wildlife Federation and has achieved a zero-landfill production designation (the first automotive assembly plant in the United States to earn that designation).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subaru#Subaru_in_the_United_States
Flashmann
(2,140 posts)I've seen those bumper stickers on all makes of imports.....
*ETA*
A Build American-Buy American bumper sticker would seem more at home on the back of a Ford than on a Kia,(generically again),was my point.....
SecularMotion
(7,981 posts)It's called xenophobia.
Flashmann
(2,140 posts)No.....Not at all.....But nice obfuscation of a point made in an attempt to agree with your OP and cherry picking of phrasing....Well done.....
SecularMotion
(7,981 posts)but you used a poor example in an attempt to equate gun nuts with "subaru-driving liberals"
https://www.google.com/search?q=subaru+driving+liberals
That's a comment I'd expect to see on a RWNJ site, not Democratic Underground.
iiibbb
(1,448 posts)When you're dead, the Mormans will convert you.
SecularMotion
(7,981 posts)iiibbb
(1,448 posts)Callisto32
(2,997 posts)Dude, spelling it correctly would have made it a BETTER pun... Mormon/moron.
See, those are closer than Mormon/moran, so more punny.
I mean, your posting does show a general lack of originality, mostly consisting of simply linking op-eds, so I suppose I should give you a break on not being that good at jokes.
SecularMotion
(7,981 posts)Callisto32
(2,997 posts)But I stand by it, it would ave been a better joke spelled correctly.
Flashmann
(2,140 posts)You seem to have amazing psychic ability and real talent for drawing inferences from thin air,as well as reading between lines where nothing exists....Bravo!!....
I said nothing about Subaru driving liberals......You did...The make of the car or who drives it is inconsequential to the point...I was merely,albeit perhaps clumsily,pointing out a bit of hypocrisy very similar to,and meant to bolster the "patriot" claim your OP made,in that some PEOPLE would use a foreign made product as a vehicle to promote buying/building American,and not recognize the silliness of it.....Shame on me....
To someone disinclined to argue,condemn and cherry pick for the sheer hell of it,that shouldn't be too complicated a notion to grasp....I can understand that someone predisposed to find "bad intent" where none exists,and who exhibits a narrow minded,pompous sense of self righteousness would be compelled to find some fault in someone in agreement with him,as ridiculous as that seems.....Really......I do understand.....No hard feelings....
"That's a comment I'd expect to see on a RWNJ site, not Democratic Underground."
That's a most curious and asinine assumption and projection,even for someone who only offers a pretense of any sort of enlightenment....Very sad....I do understand though,and I want you to know there is help available,if you just seek it out....
SecularMotion
(7,981 posts)I hope in the future that you will refrain from using smears against liberals to make your arguments on DU.
Flashmann
(2,140 posts)Please seek professional help......
In recognition that you've intentionally allowed our little interaction to devolve to a level beneath me,while failing to acknowledge that YOU misunderstood and misjudged,these will be my last words.....
Really..I implore you to pursue counseling...A professional can likely and rapidly dissuade you from illusions that you're able to offer any coherent critcism or debate.....Honestly!!
SecularMotion
(7,981 posts)You can plead ignorance on the Subaru remark, but when you added "Aspen-Snowmass" I think it makes it clear that your comment was a smear against liberals.
Flashmann
(2,140 posts)I realize I said I was done,and after this I will be,rest assured....
In response to my observation of your inability to offer up coherent criticsm or debate,due to your irrational cherry picking,obfuscation and stubborn insistence in attributing words and meaning to me,that were written by you,pulled from thin air with no basis in reason or fact,you offer more irrational cherry picking,obfuscation and stubborn insistence??
Good God man.....Get a grip on reality!!!
Please..I'm begging you....Get help soon.....
SecularMotion
(7,981 posts)The words "Subaru" and "Aspen" have well known liberal connections. You can plead ignorance to that fact, but I don't buy it.
gejohnston
(17,502 posts)I only associated the place with skiing and tourist traps, kind of like Jackson Hole. Boulder and liberals, I can picture.
Eleanors38
(18,318 posts)MichaelHarris
(10,017 posts)your TV flashmann? Philco?
Flashmann
(2,140 posts)Look....I'm not having this asinine discussion again....I have nothing against foreigners or foreign products....I was ONLY alluding to the hypocricy of using a foreign made product as a means with which to promote the build-buy American theme......Jesus H Christ you people are thick as bricks....
rrneck
(17,671 posts)gejohnston
(17,502 posts)I'm impressed.
kudzu22
(1,273 posts)From the piece:
Now, if George Washington had declared himself king (or dictator or something), treason would have been justified. But he didnt. No president since has done that. Let me know if it happens, and I will join you in the NRA and do everything I can to topple our government.
Yeah, you kinda need to have the weapons before the president declares himself king.
Glaug-Eldare
(1,089 posts)Congress will see it coming, and loosen gun laws a few years before they abolish elections. Sporting chance, and all.
ileus
(15,396 posts)Odd how willing some are to give up my rights for me....wonder what other right's of mine they don't have a use for?
Tuesday Afternoon
(56,912 posts)Does anyone know what was the total number of football injuries in 2012 ... all the way from pee-wee to the pros? thanks in advance.
gejohnston
(17,502 posts)Tuesday Afternoon
(56,912 posts)Football is one of the most popular sports played by young athletes, and it leads all other sports in the number of injuries sustained. In 2007, more than 920,000 athletes under the age of 18 were treated in emergency rooms, doctors' offices, and clinics for football-related injuries, according to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission.
Eleanors38
(18,318 posts)MichaelHarris
(10,017 posts)breakfast cereal
friendly_iconoclast
(15,333 posts)http://betterment.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=118x285630
Are the words 'mote' and 'beam' coming to mind yet, Michael?
MichaelHarris
(10,017 posts)you think you're right but my guess that's a very dusty place.
krispos42
(49,445 posts)I know it's popular and make you feel good to think that pretty much everybody buying an AR-15 or AK-47 is to protect themselves from and/or overthrow the government. But it's not true. If there's ever a time where there is a serious nationwide insurgency against the federal government, there will be plenty of government-issued weapons around.
And considering that there is pretty much universal agreement on DU that the corporations and wealthy control the government and that election results are jerry-mandered or outright fraudulent, I find this demand for absolutist, unquestioning faith in the election system interesting.
discntnt_irny_srcsm
(18,479 posts)Am I the only one that sees that it's pointless to consider exercising a right after "losing" it?
Have you read my sig line?