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In reply to the discussion: I keep starting replies to the gun-nuts, and then they turn out so ugly, I end up deleting them. [View all]JoeyT
(6,785 posts)23. I usually try to reason with them.
I've been wrong about stuff before. "How is it humanly possible that I was that stupid?" kind of wrong. So I'll give most people the benefit of the doubt.
Basically as long as they're not pushing the "We don't need new laws!" idea or trying to blame everything but a gun, I'm willing to at least try to talk them round.
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I keep starting replies to the gun-nuts, and then they turn out so ugly, I end up deleting them. [View all]
Aristus
Dec 2012
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I Agree - Many Of The DU Gun Apologists Parrot The NRA Talking Points As If They Were Drones
cantbeserious
Dec 2012
#4
The funny thing is that they don't even recognize that we remind them again and again
CTyankee
Dec 2012
#44
They probably got that idea from what some advocate here. Some people want the government to take
xoom
Dec 2012
#11
Well then its truthful to say there are those who want the government to take every single gun away.
xoom
Dec 2012
#49
Good. I got a Twitter suspension for merely being sarcastic to the sensitive creatures.
aquart
Dec 2012
#3
Put that rage to good use...sign the petition to Repeal the Second Amendment
Dems to Win
Dec 2012
#9
Either we work to prevent routine gun massacres or we are willing to accept them.
Dems to Win
Dec 2012
#15