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Old 12-18-15, 08:15 PM   #1
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One site with anonymous posts and the other two about just two individuals. Like I said, way to try and smear a couple hundred million pro-gun people.
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One site with anonymous posts and the other two about just two individuals. Like I said, way to try and smear a couple hundred million pro-gun people.
And where did I link these people with those people?
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And where did I link these people with those people?
The thing is Oberon both sides in just about any debate subject can find negative examples that fit their agendas but that does not mean they are representative of the whole. When you use amorphous terms like "certain people" in a debate as large as gun control you are unfairly stigmatizing millions of people.
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The thing is Oberon both sides in just about any debate subject can find negative examples that fit their agendas but that does not mean they are representative of the whole. When you use amorphous terms like "certain people" in a debate as large as gun control you are unfairly stigmatizing millions of people.
It was an amorphous term, I'll grant that, and I would be lying if I said that my mind didn't add 'right wing nutjobs' after it, but I'll also freely admit that I'm aware of left-wing nutjobs just as numerous as those on the right.
What you might not realise, and that's fair enough because I've often been used as the perfect example of the liberal loon in these parts is that I do not classify all pro-gun members as 'right wing nutjobs', heck, everyones favourite democratic socialist, Bernie Saunders, has come under fire on the left because of his stance on gun control not being strict enough for some.
So honestly when I mean 'certain people', I mean the fringe element, the negative examples more than I mean the whole because I understand the difference between the two. Just like I understand the difference between a normal Muslim and a radical Muslim, which is another point where you can find plenty of negative examples in order to unfair stigmatize millions, no, billions of people, but of course, that's for a different topic and I don't want to run this thread into an iceberg like the other one.

I know why you're jumpy, you expect the same blowback when some nutjob goes amuck with a gun in a school or something that I expect when some radical Muslim nutjob goes amuck.

It's hard work being a moderate, eh?
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