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In reply to the discussion: 6 Reasons Your Right-Wing Friend Isnt Coming To Your Side On Gun Control [View all]hunter
(38,302 posts)114. Fuck the second amendment.
It's of the same sick world that considered slaves three-fifths of a person.
Gun fetishes are disgusting.
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6 Reasons Your Right-Wing Friend Isnt Coming To Your Side On Gun Control [View all]
Baconator
Feb 2018
OP
There is nothing to fight about. Kids are getting murdered in schools. If they need me to kiss
wasupaloopa
Feb 2018
#12
We're not dealing the repugs of the 80s, even the 90s. Were you paying attention at all since 2000?
brush
Feb 2018
#102
Your article contained ZERO strategies for reducing massacres. Not my problem?
lostnfound
Feb 2018
#128
I thought this was an important article when I saw it earlier this morning.
WhiskeyGrinder
Feb 2018
#3
I was unfamiliar w/The Federalist, so just took a look. It's not a legit source.
Honeycombe8
Feb 2018
#85
Name one time when ANYONE has called for the right to "have an open discussion"
Cosmocat
Feb 2018
#148
I have, indeed, completed all the learning that there is to find from trollish sites like
Squinch
Feb 2018
#162
The perspective of the other side is that they have already given up too much.
Caliman73
Feb 2018
#138
I'm embarrassed sometimes when I'm at party meetings at the rhetoric and disinformation that I
WhiskeyGrinder
Feb 2018
#30
Yes, Federalist is a right-wing rag. That doesn't mean everything they say is inherently false.
Decoy of Fenris
Feb 2018
#64
LOL. That's just 6 different ways of saying what they've always said: "Your thousands of dead
Squinch
Feb 2018
#17
Interesting....I just pointed out Hoyt's fallacy...the racial 1 he CONSTANTLY
AncientGeezer
Feb 2018
#187
Your argument seems to be lumping every gun owner and supporter into the same bin
rpannier
Feb 2018
#54
I'd also kind of like to know: what is a "gun supporter." Is that like the ladies
Squinch
Feb 2018
#61
Stop that NRA bullshit. There is plenty of consensus. There are many measures that huge majorities
Squinch
Feb 2018
#63
Really, not interested in having these NRA inspired list discussions. They always end up
Squinch
Feb 2018
#92
What is this list you are referring to? Something published by the NRA, something you can link...
Marengo
Feb 2018
#186
Cracks me up when gun-fanciers think their guns actually impress anyone. Just the opposite here.
Hoyt
Feb 2018
#87
I think it's more of a three-year-old-esque attempt to bug the people he's talking to.
Squinch
Feb 2018
#89
I'd say it's more...if it's a false claim it needs to be addressed..Hoyt is good
AncientGeezer
Feb 2018
#188
Me special....hell no. Just pointing out fallacies doesn't make me special...makes me honest.
AncientGeezer
Feb 2018
#196
Nothing wrong with an anti-tank gun in a war zone. This is not a war zone, Marengo, in case you
Hoyt
Feb 2018
#86
Its an NFA weapon. Expensive, extensive background check for the buyer, and above all registered.
Marengo
Feb 2018
#94
Who cares? The guy is a racist getting off on a big rifle. That crud fuels the friggin white wing
Hoyt
Feb 2018
#96
So what? Non of that is relevant to the fact that a Lahti L39 legal to own following the...
Marengo
Feb 2018
#123
Obtuse is failing to comprehend that after having admitted to committing immoral and criminal...
Marengo
Feb 2018
#146
OOOOH! You're getting fancy! That's the "but what about the bad thing YOU did that has
Squinch
Feb 2018
#150
Leaping to the defense of an admitted criminal who chastises others for being immoral? Ill...
Marengo
Feb 2018
#152
Hey, its no bother to me if want to damage your credibility by hitching your horse to that wagon.
Marengo
Feb 2018
#166
Didn't admit to being a criminal, tried to get you gunners to accept fact everyone is not out to
Hoyt
Feb 2018
#165
Yes you did. You refered to yourself as a former robber. Unless robbery isnt a crime, that means...
Marengo
Feb 2018
#167
Interesting thats what you focus on rather than the point that an admitted criminal has no...
Marengo
Feb 2018
#172
"I've gotten myself into a corner on that gun discussion we were having, so I'll
Squinch
Feb 2018
#174
What you have is someone, myself, who finds it curious you would so quickly and consistently...
Marengo
Feb 2018
#182
Oh, sweetie, I know you worked hard for this, memorizing the script and everything.
Squinch
Feb 2018
#184
What is this script argument you keep resorting to? What are you claiming is scripted, and...
Marengo
Feb 2018
#185
Again a Hoyt fallacy...I don't have di "buddies". You can't link your claim either.
AncientGeezer
Feb 2018
#222
You'll have to ask them why they love the same murder machines as the fascists
samir.g
Feb 2018
#133
Perhaps you can offer an opinion, if youre capable of anything other than this script nonsense.
Marengo
Feb 2018
#168
Did you not get the part where I said it would be a waste of my time to offer you an opinion?
Squinch
Feb 2018
#170
Rubbish, youve wasted considerably more time dodging the question. Why is that? Its odd and
Marengo
Feb 2018
#176
Seriously, this is the most fun I've had with one of you guys in a long time. I've found
Squinch
Feb 2018
#178
You have a better chance of being hit by lightning than getting an answer
AncientGeezer
Feb 2018
#198
Agreed. A classic one trick pony, that one. It seems to regard itself as clever, but I see no...
Marengo
Feb 2018
#209
What do you mean by you guys? Where is this script you keep referring to? Have a link or cite?
Marengo
Feb 2018
#207
Something they apparently don't have in abundance in most civilized countries. nt
Wednesdays
Feb 2018
#205
Can you provide more details? What characteristics distinguish a murder machine from other firearms?
Marengo
Feb 2018
#208
All those trolling against, speaking against, working in any way against sensible gun control
Squinch
Feb 2018
#83
Sensible is entirely subjective, and your refusal to answer is interesting, perhaps even a bit...
Marengo
Feb 2018
#116
Why cant you express at least some of your ideas? Are they that controversial or extreme? Its not..
Marengo
Feb 2018
#134
I find it extremely odd that you expect absolute agreement with a position you are unwilling or...
Marengo
Feb 2018
#144
When did I ever ask YOU for any agreement, much less absolute agreement? YOUR agreement
Squinch
Feb 2018
#147
Again, very odd you spend all this effort deflecting and avoiding answering a simple question.
Marengo
Feb 2018
#154
LOL! You can't think of anything else, can you? Lost like a little lamb in the woods!
Squinch
Feb 2018
#155
What is this script you keep referring to, and what is the relation to the NRA?
Marengo
Feb 2018
#183
I will disagree with you on one point. They LIKE their guns. They LOVE that we hate their guns.
Squinch
Feb 2018
#70
It HAS applied only to the NRA before, but now, in my mind, it applies to anyone who
Squinch
Feb 2018
#110
In the early 1960s, you could have written essentially the very same article, substituting
bullwinkle428
Feb 2018
#91
Sorry. Really tired of this one. We're supposed to be sensitive to the feelings of these
Squinch
Feb 2018
#141
Their first point "We Rarely Get to Come to the Conversation in Good Faith "
PA Democrat
Feb 2018
#111
Odd that someone arguing for rational discussion quickly devolves into petulance
LanternWaste
Feb 2018
#121
The woman is a stubborn dolt. That's why she's not coming to our side.
muriel_volestrangler
Feb 2018
#143
I dare you, DOUBLE dare you, to find ONE single article from an R imploring right wingers
Cosmocat
Feb 2018
#149
If keeping their guns are more important to them than the wholesale slaughter of children ,
octoberlib
Feb 2018
#163
Where and when has militia membership been a prerequisite for the ownership of firearms?
Marengo
Feb 2018
#192
If the right of gun ownership exists outside militia service, then why would you suggest that...
Marengo
Feb 2018
#215