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Gun Control & RKBA

beevul

(12,194 posts)

7. Your side has never wanted a rational debate to begin with.

Reply to SecularMotion (Original post)

Tue Feb 2, 2016, 02:58 PM

Feb 2016

What your side wants is a one sided monologue where terms conditions and terminology are dictated only by you and people who agree with you. In other words, a return to the 90s.

And You can just forget it.

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How fetishization of the gun shuts down rational debate about gun control [View all] SecularMotion Feb 2016 OP

You spend how many hours a day every day fixating on gun control only to accuse others of a fetish? Nuclear Unicorn Feb 2016 #1

Now there's a cogent and accurate observation DonP Feb 2016 #5

Like Jimmy Swaggert and Jim Bakker railing about sexual immorality while deep in sin. Nuclear Unicorn Feb 2016 #8

Yeah, but Swaggert and Bakker both had better comedic timing ... DonP Feb 2016 #9

so very true Duckhunter935 Feb 2016 #11

Is fetishization like when you can't talk about something without making it sexual? Brickbat Feb 2016 #2

"What is it about a certain sector of gun culture... discntnt_irny_srcsm Feb 2016 #3

And Barack wept... ileus Feb 2016 #4

So true sarisataka Feb 2016 #6

Your side has never wanted a rational debate to begin with. beevul Feb 2016 #7

But if we pass just one more gun law Press Virginia Feb 2016 #15

Step one: Call anybody that questions your proposals about guns a "gun fetishist" krispos42 Feb 2016 #10

well said Duckhunter935 Feb 2016 #12

You left some out. beevul Feb 2016 #13

step 8 Duckhunter935 Feb 2016 #16

Thanks for proving SecMo's point . . . flamin lib Feb 2016 #14

SecMo's posts are quite persuasive to those who already agree with them. Others, not so much... friendly_iconoclast Feb 2016 #17