An amazing case for reducing gun ownership in America

But is that true? Tell me: What opinion on the subject of guns has been declared verboten in the current American debate, never to pass the lips of a conservative lest he be banished from the media forever? The idea that we should be arming teachers, or the ludicrously false claim that more guns leads to less crime, or the belief that military-style rifles are awesome, or the notion that we have no gun problem that can’t be solved by bringing more guns into more places? Which of the policy changes advocated by the Parkland students — a ban on those military-style weapons, raising the age to purchase a rifle from 18 to 21, expanded background checks — may no one “dissent” from? Because I hear conservatives making all of these arguments on TV, on the radio, and online every single day.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blog...the-parkland-students/?utm_term=.3eb75da58da1
 
One was Photoshopped tearing up the Constitution — a falsehood — and criticized for wearing a flag that represented her Cuban heritage.

A conservative blog said that another wasn’t even at the school during the killings — then had to backtrack on Monday when that also proved false.

The attacks on the teenage survivors of the shooting in Parkland, Fla., have been fierce from the beginning, and have only continued since the students helped spearhead hundreds of protests this weekend.

Two of the most vocal survivors, Emma González, 18, and David Hogg, 17, have been targets of a disproportionate amount of vitriol.

In an interview Tuesday, Mr. Hogg said they had been singled out because of their prominence and emphasized that ad hominem attacks would not end school shootings.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/27/us/parkland-students-hogg-gonzalez.html
 
Hüsker Dü said:
But is that true? Tell me: What opinion on the subject of guns has been declared verboten in the current American debate, never to pass the lips of a conservative lest he be banished from the media forever? The idea that we should be arming teachers, or the ludicrously false claim that more guns leads to less crime, or the belief that military-style rifles are awesome, or the notion that we have no gun problem that can’t be solved by bringing more guns into more places? Which of the policy changes advocated by the Parkland students — a ban on those military-style weapons, raising the age to purchase a rifle from 18 to 21, expanded background checks — may no one “dissent” from? Because I hear conservatives making all of these arguments on TV, on the radio, and online every single day.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blog...the-parkland-students/?utm_term=.3eb75da58da1
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Fake News
 
Hüsker Dü said:
One was Photoshopped tearing up the Constitution — a falsehood — and criticized for wearing a flag that represented her Cuban heritage.

A conservative blog said that another wasn’t even at the school during the killings — then had to backtrack on Monday when that also proved false.

The attacks on the teenage survivors of the shooting in Parkland, Fla., have been fierce from the beginning, and have only continued since the students helped spearhead hundreds of protests this weekend.

Two of the most vocal survivors, Emma González, 18, and David Hogg, 17, have been targets of a disproportionate amount of vitriol.

In an interview Tuesday, Mr. Hogg said they had been singled out because of their prominence and emphasized that ad hominem attacks would not end school shootings.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/27/us/parkland-students-hogg-gonzalez.html
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Really Fake News
 
Hüsker Dü said:
But is that true? Tell me: What opinion on the subject of guns has been declared verboten in the current American debate, never to pass the lips of a conservative lest he be banished from the media forever? The idea that we should be arming teachers, or the ludicrously false claim that more guns leads to less crime, or the belief that military-style rifles are awesome, or the notion that we have no gun problem that can’t be solved by bringing more guns into more places? Which of the policy changes advocated by the Parkland students — a ban on those military-style weapons, raising the age to purchase a rifle from 18 to 21, expanded background checks — may no one “dissent” from? Because I hear conservatives making all of these arguments on TV, on the radio, and online every single day.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blog...the-parkland-students/?utm_term=.3eb75da58da1
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Sounds like the johnny come late NRRA would have been more useful than the inert marches. I guess you people are content to sit on the sidelines paying lip service to gun control. All waha, iʻole.
 
Hüsker Dü said:
One was Photoshopped tearing up the Constitution — a falsehood — and criticized for wearing a flag that represented her Cuban heritage.

A conservative blog said that another wasn’t even at the school during the killings — then had to backtrack on Monday when that also proved false.

The attacks on the teenage survivors of the shooting in Parkland, Fla., have been fierce from the beginning, and have only continued since the students helped spearhead hundreds of protests this weekend.

Two of the most vocal survivors, Emma González, 18, and David Hogg, 17, have been targets of a disproportionate amount of vitriol.

In an interview Tuesday, Mr. Hogg said they had been singled out because of their prominence and emphasized that ad hominem attacks would not end school shootings.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/27/us/parkland-students-hogg-gonzalez.html
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It seems clear that when the righties and nutters like Ted Nugent start attacking teenage survivors of a mass murder in their school, the kids are onto something. The make America stupid crowd is scared. Who would attack kids like this?
 
xav10 said:
It seems clear that when the righties and nutters like Ted Nugent start attacking teenage survivors of a mass murder in their school, the kids are onto something. The make America stupid crowd is scared. Who would attack kids like this?
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Come on Rat, stop posting as x10...you're not fooling anyone.
 
xav10 said:
It seems clear that when the righties and nutters like Ted Nugent start attacking teenage survivors of a mass murder in their school, the kids are onto something. The make America stupid crowd is scared. Who would attack kids like this?
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Just as clear as your case for collusion.
 
xav10 said:
It seems clear that when the righties and nutters like Ted Nugent start attacking teenage survivors of a mass murder in their school, the kids are onto something. The make America stupid crowd is scared. Who would attack kids like this?
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Their on to mass murder, not gun control. Neither of you, as always, seem to be able to distinguish between the two issues
 
Bruddah IZ said:
Their on to mass murder, not gun control. Neither of you, as always, seem to be able to distinguish between the two issues
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I can never understand you and you don’t listen, so I don’t respond to you anymore. This is an exception. Your response here, for example, has nothing to do with my point about attacking the teens. Your response to my inquiry to Joe about whether you’re a “union boy” which he always denigrates Husker with was also a non-sequitur.
 
xav10 said:
I can never understand you and you don’t listen, so I don’t respond to you anymore. This is an exception. Your response here, for example, has nothing to do with my point about attacking the teens. Your response to my inquiry to Joe about whether you’re a “union boy” which he always denigrates Husker with was also a non-sequitur.
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Izzy is the king of non-sequiturs.
 
xav10 said:
I can never understand you and you don’t listen, so I don’t respond to you anymore. This is an exception. Your response here, for example, has nothing to do with my point about attacking the teens.
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You said "the kids are onto something."

xav10 said:
It seems clear that when the righties and nutters like Ted Nugent start attacking teenage survivors of a mass murder in their school, the kids are onto something. The make America stupid crowd is scared. Who would attack kids like this?
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I just told you what they are "onto". It would help if you people took heed of what you post. You cry non-sequitur because it renders your argument inert.
 
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