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Originally Posted by Glenn E. Meyer
IMHO, minds change with an emotionally laden incident as compared to rational risk/benefit arguments.
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In New York City a conservative is a liberal who's been mugged.
However, in dealing with some antigun folk I have found them to believe rationally that with control and social engineering we can achieve that Roddenberry
Star Trek; The Next Generation social nirvana in which guns (phasers) have no place in society (unless you are fighting the Borg).
Emotions don't seem to be their motivation (although they will use horrific events as Peters did with the Port Arthur Massacre) as much as a rather naive (IMHO) hope that in a better society we shouldn't be shooting one another.