Reply #41: gee

[iverglas]

As far a any smearing going on I have EVERY right to voice my displeasure with my elected officials. THIS IS A DEMOCRACY and as much as you may wish to quell the voice of decent it is NOT unpatriotic to voice decent.

Do you imagine that EVERYTHING is about you???

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=118&topic_id=163349&mesg_id=164242
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=118&topic_id=163349&mesg_id=164307

If YOU want to call an unsupported allegation that a respected elected Democrat with a long record of responsible public positions has a "tenuous hold on reality", and the insertion of that unsupported allegation into a discussion of whether the US citizens whom that Democrat represents should have vote as well as voice at the federal government table, "dissent", ... well, you go ahead. That WILL be about you.


My time "hanging around websites" is MY time to do with as I wish. I believe strongly in gun rights and support those candidates that do also. To bad the only smearing going on here is from you against my beliefs.

Maybe you should look into why you think everything anyone says is about you. Or is it just everything I say?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=118&topic_id=163293&mesg_id=163293
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=118&topic_id=163293&mesg_id=163317

... even though it actually seldom seems to be ...


Unfortunately your visceral hatred of gun rights also makes you react similarly to those that disagree with you. Why can you not be rational on this topic and debate honestly?

Unfortunately, you just don't understand what you read.

"Gun rights" -- like that, in quotation marks -- means something. It refers to a body of thought that is summarized by that noun phrase. People who use that noun phrase with approval are conveying a message. It's an ascribed meaning -- since the noun phrase gun rights itself is kinda meaningless. Table legs are the legs of tables; are gun rights the rights of guns? "Gun rights" is a code phrase. It doesn't mean anything unless you know what it means.

We all know what "gun rights" means, and exactly whom all those guns are needed to "defend" against. The old-style racists were content to try to keep firearms out of the hands of the targets of their hatred; the new-style "gun rights" activists prefer to just shoot them.