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Originally Posted by Bartholomew Roberts
You ever notice how on the Internet, someone who is losing an argument based on facts soon resorts to ad hominem? The recent push for gun control and its follow up is just that same practice writ large. Look at the pieces above:
1. Gun owners are deranged psychotics.
2. Gun owners are personally responsible for Newtown.
3. Gun owners are white racists who want to shoot dark-skinned people.
The problem is, in the United States there are around 80-100 million gun owners.
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I agree, but take seriously the popularity of reactions to polls about facile quasi-solutions like universal background checks.
That there are in the US something between 80 and 150 million gun owners does not mean that there are between 80 and 150 million principled advocates of an important civil right. My sense is that many of those owners might readily accept changes that do not appear to be an immediate problem for them personally.