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I honestly don't understand in which part of my comment you think I'm in favour of civil war. I'm merely pointing out that attempting to argue against guns fro
by troad 3y ago
I honestly don't understand in which part of my comment you think I'm in favour of civil war.
I'm merely pointing out that attempting to argue against guns from the perspective of 'popular resistance against tyranny never going to be successful' is far from the best way to argue against guns. It has been successful before, and the country's entire foundation myth rests on one of those instances.
There's many ways to argue against gun proliferation. This is a bad one. It's particularly bad one to use on right-of-centre Americans. But people on the Internet disagree, love using it, and they've been incredibly successful in using it to win over suppo- oh, wait.
- ethanbond 3y agoI didn't suggest that you're in favor of it? Was not my intention so sorry if it came off that way! I agree with the overall thrust though: this is not a winning line of argument. But I'm not sure what is, to be honest, given that this issue has become quasi-religious. Eventually we'll have enough dead kids (and enough dead old people) to start questioning this religious conviction, but yeah, logic or history won't get us there.
- troad 3y agoI appreciate your reply and I hear what you're saying. So much of life has become political, and so much of the political has become pseudo-religious. People no longer have positions on policies, they have articles of faith on politics. It's not a great basis for a dialogue, unfortunately.