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[TheMercenary]

Originally Posted by BigV

hey mercy....

*I* am a Liberal, and I'll tell you what *I* hate: useless, overbroad generalizations that do nothing but fuel prejudice and masquerade as understanding. Like, say, :


I refuse to believe you believe that. And yet, you repeat it. I do not hate the Second Amendment. Don't exacerbate our serious problems by perpetuating misinformation.

By and large it is quite a true statement. Why would you believe otherwise? Because you are an exception to that rule?????

So you are the exception. Look at only from a legislative point of view and see how many politicians on the Left of center support restrictive gun control. I don't see how you could make such a silly statement.

[Fair&Balanced]

Originally Posted by TheMercenary

By and large it is quite a true statement. Why would you believe otherwise? Because you are an exception to that rule?????

So you are the exception. Look at only from a legislative point of view and see how many politicians on the Left of center support restrictive gun control. I don't see how you could make such a silly statement.

I think the legislative records of most liberals would show that they are closer to the mainstream than to the alleged position you ascribe to them. In fact, their "legislative point of view" being that reasonable restrictions, like those in the Brady Law, are not an infringement of Second Amendment rights and that Second Amendment rights are not absolute, a position that has been affirmed by the Supreme Court on several occasions, most recently by the current conservative court.

There are extremists on the far left who would go further than those reasonable and legal restrictions just as there are extremists on the right who would ignore the First Amendment establishment clause.

But sweeping generalizations about liberals or conservatives are just another example of extremism at work and cant be supported by the facts.

[TheMercenary]

Originally Posted by Fair&Balanced

I think the legislative records of most liberals would show that they are closer to the mainstream than to the alleged position you ascribe to them. In fact, their "legislative point of view" being that reasonable restrictions, like those in the Brady Law, are not an infringement of Second Amendment rights and that Second Amendment rights are not absolute, a position that has been affirmed by the Supreme Court on several occasions, most recently by the current conservative court.

There are extremists on the far left who would go further than those reasonable and legal restrictions just as there are extremists on the right who would ignore the First Amendment establishment clause.

But sweeping generalizations about liberals or conservatives are just another example of extremism at work and cant be supported by the facts.

These are not sweeping generalizations. It is observation of objective voting data based on party affiliation. You can find the data at both the NRA and Gun Owners of America websites if you care to look. This has nothing to do with the First Amendment only the Second. Again, the "Sweeping generalizations about liberals" and Second Amendment Rights are fact, not extremism, no matter how you or your alter-ego cowardly incarnation wants to make it.