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In reply to the discussion: Why we lost the gun debate in the Senate, and why we'll keep losing it. [View all]Progressive dog
(6,899 posts)from their vote on the background check issue. Might be you're a little premature about what works.
Any way, what you are saying is that we should surrender our arguments to the RW, and legitimize theirs. We should talk about drones against US citizens, we should try to convince bat crap crazy people that fighting the government that you elected is not wise.
We can't even prove to the gun nuts that the more dangerous guns are and the easier it is to get guns, the safer we all are. Why, because these are mostly the same people that don't want government hands on their SS and Medicare. Many are seeing black helicopters in the sky. You get my point, I hope.
We are not responsible for teaching these people to reason, to making them pay attention to how our government is supposed to work. It is past time to end the gun slaughter, or at least slow it.
The time for talk was before Newtown.