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posted 2 years, 3 months ago
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rethomas writes:

"If you want the "paranoia" to end, stop the persecution"

Which is a prima fascie argument that you ARE paranoid.

American gun owners are the least persecuted "minority" on the planet.

And paranoids with guns ...?

GREAT idea.

posted 2 years, 3 months ago
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Nobody ever cooked a meal with a gun. Nobody ever built a house out of guns. 

If you are correct in your beliefs, making a rational (and not a specious) argument OUGHT to be a simple matter.

posted 2 years, 3 months ago
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"Look at Mexico to see that gun control does not work."

By the same logic, look at crime statistics to see that laws don't work, look at disease statistics to see that medicine doesn't work, and look at food poisoning statistics to see that cooking doesn't work.

Seriously, if you don't (seemingly) understand rational argument, how comforted can I be that you bray about owning a gun?

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You know, there's nothing that comforts me about guns more than a rude, pushy, angry White male, who insults people who disagree with him, who argues based on anecdotal evidence and obscure and 'irrefutable' talking points (because of their obscurity), and generally behaves like a spoiled brat.

The idea that HE has a gun is NOT exactly what I'd call a selling point for gun rights.

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