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Gun Control Reform Activism

billh58

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Reply to CTyankee (Reply #7)

Thu Sep 19, 2013, 11:01 AM

Sep 2013

summed it up nicely. The very vocal minority is comprised of NRA shills and gun fetishists who fill the Internet with NRA propaganda at every opportunity. These are the real extremists who enable the gun pipeline directly to the criminal element in this country.

They hide behind the Second Amendment, and use it as a marketing tool to sell more guns, which in turn feeds the under-the-table sales of guns to criminals and the mentally incompetent.

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So much for activism [View all] BainsBane Sep 2013 OP

I sure as hell called them again gopiscrap Sep 2013 #1

You rock, Gopiscrap BainsBane Sep 2013 #2

I've called, written letters, and I'm not surprised that a gun is more important Agnosticsherbet Sep 2013 #3

I suggest you bookmark that thread BainsBane Sep 2013 #4

A very good idea. Agnosticsherbet Sep 2013 #5

Well, at least I know there is no point discussing anything with 85% of the gungeon BainsBane Sep 2013 #6

One argument FOR discussing this further is that there are new progressives finding DU CTyankee Sep 2013 #7

I suspect that BainsBane Sep 2013 #8

Well, drawing them out makes them talk too much and that's what happens. Skinner CTyankee Sep 2013 #9

You have billh58 Sep 2013 #10

One went berserk BainsBane Sep 2013 #13

I suspect it is the forum you posted in. I am sort of a nuisance to my legislators on this Squinch Sep 2013 #11

Yet I also posted in GD BainsBane Sep 2013 #12

Oh! I didn't see the GD thread. Was it the same "we're all responsible gun owners Squinch Sep 2013 #14

Yes BainsBane Sep 2013 #15

Ugh. "Spin, spin, spin, derail, derail, derail, I'm a responsible gun owner who has Squinch Sep 2013 #16

Then there was BainsBane Sep 2013 #17

And they really did feel free to cut loose with the personal nastiness toward you, didn't they? Squinch Sep 2013 #18

and I hadn't had an exchange with BainsBane Sep 2013 #19

I actually didn't see the particular post referencing HOF. I am guessing I put him on ignore. Squinch Sep 2013 #20

It didn't reference HOF BainsBane Sep 2013 #21

I was raised by one. I'm sure you realize it comes from a feeling of extreme helplessness. Squinch Sep 2013 #22

I suppose that makes sense BainsBane Sep 2013 #23

It is a very sad thing. It's a way to win at a game that was over long ago, and it really Squinch Sep 2013 #24

My Congress critter is a Repub and very much pro-gun Kaleva Sep 2013 #25