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March 21, 2018, 08:37 AM | #26 | |
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March 21, 2018, 09:02 AM | #27 |
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Read what Double Naught Spy wrote in post #5.
My hog count pales in comparison to that of DNS but my experience mirrors his exactly. The chest of a hog shot in the heart/lung area will be filled with bloody goo. Sometimes the diaphragm and liver are badly damaged. Dr. (USA Colonel) Martin Fackler treated thousands of wounded troops. He is an authority on military bullet wounds. http://kjg-munition.de/Zielwirkung/m..._patterns.html BTW: The US military used hogs in the testing of rifle bullets. |
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Lapierre correctly notes the growth of an idea that one's individual rights held against the state are to be subordinated to new and increasingly invasive state authority. One's rights to his income, his freedom to speak or not (in the form of "hate" speech criminal enhancements and state compelled speech, and limits on campaign speech), freedom of association in insurance and medical matters, freedom of religious practice, and right to keep and bear arms come under attack from a recognizable portion of the political spectrum. Those attacks rest on an analysis hostile to the concept of principled and enduring limits on state power. The 2d Am. is but one of those limits. Amongst holders of elected office that portion of the spectrum is found in the american democrat party and european, labour, social democrat and socialist parties. There is enough commonality in these positions that american political players can find roles in Israel and western Europe. LaPierre's point is both substantially correct and not reducible to "the left wants to take your guns so kindergarten teachers can turn your children into socialists", even in caricature. Quote:
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Firing up the base is a necessity; people who don't care are less likely to vote. Advocacy requires fundraising. Changing minds and gaining ground on an issue can involve calmly presented and well -reasoned arguments, as well as other sorts of arguments.
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I think, zukiphile, that we are going to continue to disagree on this. The point I am trying to make is that, with the country roughly evenly split between two major parties, and only around 2/3 of a favored party opposing increased gun control, we are starting with a minority. If we alienate voters who may agree with us on gun issues, either by calling them idiots for their registration, or by bringing up other issues upon which to demand their allegiance, we will not achieve a majority. We need votes more than we need rhetoric, in my opinion. I think you and I can agree without being disagreeable - we are, I think, doing that right now in this thread. The current rhetoric of the NRA does not allow anyone to do that.
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I agree with TailGator and don't need to repeat myself. One can agree or disagree that Wayne and Dana will be successful in the long run and whether their diatribes move anyone outside of the choir. That is an empirical question.
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Tailgator, persuasion will require communicating something important; one can't say anything important if he will not risk offending someone looking to be offended.
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Individual ideological variation for prudential or moral reason on a specific issue isn't rare. In my experience people who engage in it may be both better informed and more tolerant of disagreement than average. What about identification of an important political movement would disallow civil discourse? If one is a man of the left but believes the 2d Am. right is important and worth defending, he finds himself up against a reality that it shouldn't be the NRA's to help him deny.
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March 21, 2018, 02:29 PM | #33 |
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Read Wayne La Pierre's Our Colleges Are Breeding Grounds For Socialists Who Will Take Our Guns in the April issue of The American Rifleman.
The article is a rant in the style of Alex Jones. IMO: Wayne La Pierre is pandering to the ignorant and uninformed. |
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I wouldn’t discount the spread of socialism throughout the country.
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Saying things that fall outside a fairly narrow bandwidth will find objection as "micro-aggression", misogyny, racism, eurocentrism, etc. Incoming students are often routinely indoctrinated in matter of "diversity" and "equity". At the College of Wooster, a senior wrote on Facebook that he liked some "alt-right" youtube videos. There was a sit in to discuss student feelings about it, the senior was removed from campus (four years and well over $200,000 into his undergraduate education) and the college committed to instituting a new "Cultural Competence" class for every incoming freshman. An officer with the Wooster College Republicans wrote an article in the school paper calling for greater tolerance of varying viewpoints on campus rather than name-calling and threats. I recommended to her that she make common cause with genuinely liberal faculty who also should have an interest in an intellectually tolerant environment. Her extraordinarily sad response? She didn't know any. As the Berkeley treatment of several speakers last year demonstrated, the problem isn't confined to small private colleges.
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i began college in 1984 at age 45. Got my bachelors in 1988, my MBA in 1997. i know numerous college professors, many are my friends. Except for some who teach politics, they seldom mention politics in class. After amassing just over 260 credit hours i encountered two professors who were classical "liberals". One was an undergrad professor of speech. The other was a published professor who taught American government. The man very seldom revealed his personal politics in class. |
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You have got some surprises coming for sure.
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Since we've drifted into pure politics -- closed. The evils (or otherwise) of socialism are seriously off-topic here.
PS from Glenn - I can't resist. My academic credentials are having been a liberals arts professors at two such colleges from 1977 to 2016, plus teaching at some other state school at night. Wayne's fears are a touch out there, despite the excesses of a small number of students. Sorry, Evan.
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