Our argument in a nutshell: Waking the dragon — How Feinstein fiddled while America burned

[mikedubs]

Great piece, although long

http://www.iowastatedaily.com/opinio...tml?TNNoMobile

[kawiracer14]

A good, long read. Unfortunately - how many libs will actually read this and care?

[Aloha_Shooter]

Excellent essay but he'll lose the libs on paragraph 2 once it's clear he actually cares about Texas as much as Boston and isn't talking about gay marriage, legalizing pot, or free contraceptives.

[CroiDhubh]

A good, long read. Unfortunately - how many libs will actually read this and care?

Liberals only care when your heart can bleed from emotion instead of facts

[Zundfolge]

Its a good read, however "in a nutshell" implies brevity.

[mtnhack]

Its a good read, however "in a nutshell" implies brevity.

That was brief, because he could have written an entire book on the subject.


Excellent read, and yet another one that should be a prerequisite for anyone wanting to argue gun control.

[Gunyaga]

Good info and points, and agree it's an excellent read, but to the above posts as well, libs could care less and it's a rinse and repeat of the same info "our side," has been posting, preaching etc. Until there is something presented to help perusade the low information left side of center masses, it's all on deaf ears to those we wish would listen anyhow.

[Ronin13]

Great read... on thing did hit with me pretty hard, and it seems like we too (most of us anyway) are guilty of perpetuating this, although it kind of goes along with the idea that you can only get pushed so much before you push back:
"The rift is already beginning. We must mend fences...Now."

[wctriumph]

Fuckin' A right.

[newracer]

http://m.iowastatedaily.com/mobile/o...a4bcf887a.html

It's a good read, a few excerpts.

I’ve come to realize after the Sandy Hook shooting that the reason we can’t have a rational gun debate is because the anti-gun side pre-supposes that their pro-gun opponents must first accept that guns are bad in order to have a discussion about guns in the first place. Before we even start the conversation, we’re the bad guys and we have to admit it. Without accepting that guns are bad and supplicating themselves to the anti-gunner, the pro-gunner can’t get a word in edgewise, and is quickly reduced to being called a murderer, or a low, immoral and horrible human being.

Gun people don’t trust anti-gun people because they keep saying they “respect the Second Amendment” and go on about how they respect the hunting traditions of America. We don’t trust you because you have to be a complete idiot to think the Second Amendment is about hunting. I wish people weren’t so stupid that I have to say this: The Second Amendment is about checking government tyranny. Period. End of story. The founders probably couldn’t have cared less about hunting since, you know, they just got done with that little tiff with England called the Revolutionary War right before they wrote that “little book” called the Constitution.

You anti-gunners out there will lead us down a path you do not want to go down. Your lack of care and understanding of those who abide by America’s oldest and deepest-rooted tradition will cause a social rift in this country of the likes we have never seen in America’s young history. Your lack of understanding chances causing a civil war — a civil war that will be far worse, more acrimonious, more prolonged and more deadly than the last one.