Honest, Adult Debate. Gun Violence, Goddamnit!

[TheKentuckian]

15. I don't argue my view is one that is reasonable. I hold a nearly absolutist view, but I admit it.

Grabber authoritarians do not, though there position is so absolute that it would override other rights en route to the goal line that are welcome to the conversation.
You know folks calling for house to house searches, confiscation of personal property, disruption of assembly for the "unreasonable" and banning of undesirable opinion from the debate. Forms of extremism that my admittedly absolutist position doesn't share which I think means should have at least as much say as those that would end around search and seizure, the right to be secure in one's property, basic privacy in an all out effort to get their way.

If you have to go through the Bill of Rights like a bull in a china shop to make your objective then I think it is fair to call you an extremist or at least that in the particular area you are.
Perhaps certain times and obstacles call for extremism but I'll never trust anyone who won't fess to the fact the measures are extreme with a plan to put the genie back in the bottle that restores the rights they trample along the way to the brass ring. I've even seen calls for ongoing annual house searches, so zealous on this that they would ban privacy forever as long as the paperwork can say "weapons search".

I call that batshit crazy and deeply authoritarian. Too desperate to be called rational on a good day.