Gun Control Reform Activism

stone space

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8. Oh, this is rich!

Mon May 23, 2016, 08:02 AM

May 2016

Just yesterday, in response to an article about the NRA's opposition to the Right to Vote, with this sentence singled out and quoted:

Former inmates who lost their voting rights, many of them for non-violent drug offenses, have told ThinkProgress they feel like “less than a citizen” and “less than human.”

Just imagine just how stupid they would sound if they were talking about the Right to Pack Heat rather than the Right to Vote:

Oh this is rich. Just imagine the absolute fun you'd be having with this, if those former inmates had said the same thing about a constitutionally protected right - gun rights.

They'd go from being the poor disenfranchised former felons, to the "ammosexuals" whos decisions and judgment can't be trusted, all with a switch of the topic.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1172193876#post2

Yeah, a little switch in topic can sometimes have a huge impact on just how stupid something sounds.

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Gun Logic 101: "As a touchstone, let's change the subject and see how stupid it sounds". [View all] stone space May 2016 OP

Great post, and yes, those arguments are only for the very stupid of brain. But, well, ya know. Squinch May 2016 #1

He murdered another human being. AllyCat May 2016 #2

I agree with taking away their guns. stone space May 2016 #3

You are trampling on my Second Amendment Rights, Stone Space!!!!! Mustellus May 2016 #4

If Practiced freedom of speech the way they practice the second flamin lib May 2016 #5

I wonder if Freedom of the Press includes the right to print off guns on 3D Printers? stone space May 2016 #6

K & R n/t billh58 May 2016 #7

Oh, this is rich! stone space May 2016 #8