Measuring character by a person's politics is silly. What diminishes DoubleGun are those who use it to promote a political party: you're pro-gun if you vote one way and anti-gun if you vote the other---as if our sole abiding interest is guns.
It was only a matter of time before Larry's older brother King Brown gave us his two Canadian cents. If promoting a political party really diminishes this website King, why have you spent so much time here advancing the anti-gun views of the Liberal Left and supporting and defending the most extreme anti-gun Democrats? Here's but one example, even though you knew that Obama had pushed for more gun control and signed Executive Orders when he couldn't get his way in Congress:
It's hardly mean-spirited to note that I'm an Obama supporter. I'm proud of it, apparent here as long as he's been around. He's anti-gun but has kept his legislative gun in his holster to position his party for '16.
You cannot honestly claim to be pro-gun when you consciously support and vote for a politician who has a 100% anti-gun voting record and who promises to enact greater restrictions and infringements upon the 2nd Amendment. Your post here is about as dishonest as an abortion doctor claiming to be pro-life.
It isn't just a blip or a one time thing with our Trolls like you and Ed. You have been posting anti-gun, anti-lead, anti-2ndAmendment, and anti-NRA rhetoric here for at least 10 years. It is only recently that I began collecting examples so that you can't run away from your own words and pretend to be something that you are not. Here's a few to refresh your memory...
The Court departed from the original understanding of the Second. The NRA and other groups rejected the original interpretation. Even as late as 1991, the jurist Burger appointed by Nixon said "the Second Amendment has been the subject of one of the greatest pieces of fraud, I repeat the word 'fraud,' on the American public by special interest groups that I have ever seen in my lifetime." In 2008, in the District of Columbia v. Heller, what Burger said was fraud was accepted by the court. Interesting stuff.
Democracies make choices. Americans accept mass murder to defend an individual right to bear arms in the name of personal freedom.
The roots I'm comfortable with are the radical---"to get to the root of"---and that's Jesus's teaching. The shame is how far the Christian community has drifted from it. We act irrationally from fear when the Christian message is to fear not, even death itself.We call ourselves Christian nations and stockpile ammunition, need concealed carry to protect ourselves and a regulated militia without regulations to protect us from our own governments, abandoning Jesus's teaching to defend it.
The Second is what originalists and others want it to be, the former seeing any variances as infringements. So it goes and ever will be. It is not inviolable and inalienable as some members want all of us to believe.
Gun control doesn't work? I believe gun control works reasonably generally in Canada, providing a less violent society compared to some others, in good part because of our different culture.
I'd feel better about 2nd protection if our side stopped shooting itself in the foot with the makes-no-difference between 10 and larger magazines, cross-messaging of the worst kind. The antis are saying if the difference is 6-8 seconds what's the problem of excluding the 10-plus?
You see King, my opinion that you and Ed are anti-gun Trolls is based upon your own words. This is but a fraction of what you have posted here... many times going off-topic to do it. Few people have taken threads off-topic more than you King... without a peep from your little brother and self-appointed Moderator, Larry Clown.
Dimensions of character---and culpability---are implied in the words we use.
So what do we make of it when you say such things, and then try to deny your own words?
....He promised a day or so ago he was holding back some juicy quotes to prove I'm anti-gun, a common ploy of persons on the margins looking for attention....
C'mon, Craig, let's not get off on tangents....
....I asked for evidence of his accuracy, integrity and truthfulness---and received none. Now I'm asking members to help him or produce evidence that I'm anti-gun. No distractions, please. Just the evidence.
And just how many times does craigd and others have to also provide you with evidence of your anti-2nd Amendment rhetoric???
You're sounding like the little fella, Craig. Where did I demonize the NRA, please?....
Pound for pound, I felt the need to trim a bunch-o-stuff off of this one too. You may not be aware of it, but I have a scale sitting next to my comp, more of a balance beam.
In this small example, I threw the pro gun dem reality on one side and the less than flattering NRA comments on the other, and guess what? Broke my scale, it took a distinctive anti NRA bent.
How many times can you get caught with the smoking gun in your hands and still claim that you are pro-gun? Even your fellow Troll Ed was finally able to admit it shortly before Misfires was closed down.
YES, YES, YES, YES, YES, YES, YES, YES,,,
KING BROWN IS AN ANTIGUNNER...
NOW WILL YOU LEAVE IT ALONE?
Anti-gun birds of a feather flock together.
