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In reply to the discussion: Gun Writer is suddenly a pariah. [View all]stuarttman63
(18 posts)The treatment Dick Metcalf received at the hands of his compatriots is strongly reminiscent of what happened to journalists, writers, artists, etc who ran afoul of the party line in various Communist countries. They were vigorously denounced and purged from the ranks. Mr. Metcalf is indeed lucky that these people do not(as yet) have the power of life and death over him lest he share the same fate as Maxim Gorky. The vehemence with which he is denounced, the us vs them mentality that gave rise to it and the entrenched refusal to come to any kind of common ground vis-a-vis the rising tide of gun violence, is a horrible indication of how far the gun apologists have strayed from the body politic. They have become like the Jacobins in Revolutionary France, the Bolsheviks during the Russian Revolution and the Red Guards during China's "Cultural Revolution". They think in the same black and white, good vs evil, us vs them manner.