Machodoc
Old Guy
That's why looking at one part of what somebody says, out of context with everything else that they've said on the topic (go back a couple of posts), can lead to a totally different interpretation of what they are saying.
OK. This is the last time I'm saying this, and then I"m done with this thread. My posts have not been about how I think things should be, or how I wish they were. They have been a purposively neutral look at how I think the game needs to be played, given the current political environment. Neither the anti-gun minority on the extreme left, wishing the unicorns would make all the guns disappear, nor those on the extreme right, ready to hit the bunkers in defiance of the current laws, are going to change anything. That change needs to come from (or with the support of) the majority in the middle, and that support is not going to develop unless we educate them. I don't know what about this position makes me a pariah in the eyes of a few folks here, but I can live with that.
I'm outta this thread.
OK. This is the last time I'm saying this, and then I"m done with this thread. My posts have not been about how I think things should be, or how I wish they were. They have been a purposively neutral look at how I think the game needs to be played, given the current political environment. Neither the anti-gun minority on the extreme left, wishing the unicorns would make all the guns disappear, nor those on the extreme right, ready to hit the bunkers in defiance of the current laws, are going to change anything. That change needs to come from (or with the support of) the majority in the middle, and that support is not going to develop unless we educate them. I don't know what about this position makes me a pariah in the eyes of a few folks here, but I can live with that.
I'm outta this thread.