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Hurts their credibility more the our arguments ever could
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Not with the base. Imagine a few gun-control folks sitting around a coffee shop talking about it.
"Did you hear about Mark Kelly? He bought one of those AR-15 rifles."
"Uh huh, I
know. He went to a gun store and everything. That's scary. I heard the people who work there don't even
bathe. That was pretty brave of him."
"Yeah, right? I can't wait for them to ban those things. It's good that he's turning it over to the police. I just feel so bad that his wife was shot with one of those."
And that's their base in a nutshell. Kelly's credibility with them won't be hurt a bit by it since their agenda thrives on ignorance and hypocrisy.
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What these people are doing is the equivalent of repeatedly handing an alcoholic a bottle of whiskey.
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To some extent. Kelly and Giffords have been through the unthinkable, and I've no doubt they're being manipulated by their peers. That can be some pretty strong pressure.
That said, nobody marched him into that store and forced him to buy that rifle.