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[MADem]

140. I avoid the gun discussions precisely because they are too contentious!

I got in a discussion there once a while ago, in the old DU, and boy did my head hurt! That's a bit too rich for my blood, as they say.

We had another person back in that old DU who had the same approach, a lawyer from Canada, she styled herself (though she couldn't have practiced much law because she was on the internet all the time), who had a blazing affection for the very same two forums; can't remember her name but she got PPR'd after doing much the same thing for a long, long time--fighting with everyone, ascribing false views to people, being incredibly rude...she'd try to wear people down with a continuous assault of invective. Of course, now that we have the jury system, that full on kind of approach doesn't work anymore--good thing!

Though we all may not own a gun, we each do have a gender (a rare few more than one) and if we're to live together on this big blue marble and keep humanity going, it's not helpful to start phony "wars" over things that we all agree on--and the overwhelming majority of DUers are good, decent people who respect women, AND men, AND children, AND the elderly, and aren't hateful misogynists/misandrists who view every waking moment as a battle against an unseen "opponent" of the opposite gender. This attitude is just absurd, and when complete strangers are made "the enemy" and accused in that fashion it just really makes DU suck.