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In reply to the discussion: How (not) to convince people to support gun control. [View all]baldguy
(36,649 posts)However, your post presupposes that those who honestly oppose gun control do so through honorable motivations. They don't.
"One obvious place to start is with comparison with other countries."
http://tewksburylab.org/blog/2012/12/gun-violence-and-gun-ownership-lets-look-at-the-data/
Any reasonable person would look at this and understand that the US is doing something wrong in regards to guns. We're a strong and unusual outlier in both the number of weapons we have and the number of homicides.
When gun nuts - yes, GUN NUTS - look at this, they first see nothing wrong at all. When pressed, they admit that there may be some problem - but it's all due to mental heath issues, or drug abuse, or video games. In short, they cast about in search of ANYTHING AT ALL to blame it on other than the obvious culprit, which is the guns. And they will go out of their way to criticize any public figure who supports gun control, whatever the issue is.
And the most amazing thing is that they seem to parroting these same RW talking points coming from Alex Jones, Wayne LaPierre, and the other well-known RW crazies. Doing so while claiming to be a liberal/progressive Democrat is neither honest nor honorable. They don't offer respect, and they don't deserve to get any respect in return.
One way to insure that arguments against gun control are mocked & ridiculed is to get them from the most unreliable & extreme RW sources. Such posts NEED to be exposed for what they are.