Posted on 10/27/2015 10:32:29 AM PDT by rktman
I am hopeful that everyone who comes to the meeting, including myself, will leave with a renewed sense of optimism about the daunting task that lies ahead. But I'm also hopeful about something else, which is that we will all not just learn better ways enlist more people in the crusade against gun violence, but better ways to talk about gun violence to folks who own guns. If Nelson Mandela were alive, he would say that the problem of gun violence can only be resolved by bringing everyone to the table who has a stake in the game. We need to invite the other side to join us in the discussion; if they refuse, we need to invite them again and again. That would exemplify the true spirit of Nelson Mandela and underscore what Washington's National Cathedral is really all about.
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Whatever he did, did not seem to get in Oscar Pistorius’ way.
...and the last time I was there, Johannesburg was the “most dangerous city in the world” - according to the UN.
Apparently, Mike “The Gun Guy” has no idea that Mandela was a Communist, according to a friend from Zimbabwe.
There is no gun problem.
Never accept the premis of the enemy.
Nelson Mandella. He was that Communist lawyer for terrorists, wasn’t he? Married to a woman who had political opponents tortured to death?
Mandela is a g-d socialist bastard. Hed be putting burning tire necklaces on people. Hed be ignoring laws and confiscating them.
Wasn’t Mandela a communist terrorist? Oh, well, no wonder he’d be in favor of “common sense” gun control. (Which is never defined by the anti-gun commies)
Let’s pretend for a moment that America is a Constitutional Republic and NOT the third world nation Mandela governed.
In that case, I would not prescribe Mandela’s theoretical “solutions”, for America.
Nelson Mandela was a corrupt despot in charge of one of Planet Earth’s major sh*t holes.
Who cares what he’d have said.
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