Posted on 03/07/2018 12:34:18 PM PST by nickcarraway
Edited on 03/07/2018 1:51:46 PM PST by Jim Robinson. [history]
Pointing out inaccuracies in your opponent's arguments is a cynical ploy to stop discussion. Or so I gather from Adam Weinstein, who just published a Washington Post op-ed taking gun control critics to task for "gunsplaining"—Weinstein's name for when one is "harangued with the pedantry of the more-credible-than-thou firearms owner" after one makes some incidental factual error about guns, such as calling AR-15s "high-powered" or confusing clips with magazines. "Gunsplaining," Weinstein declares, "is always done in bad faith. Like mansplaining, it's less about adding to the discourse than smothering it." Were it not for those condescending gun snobs picking apart every rhetorical misstep, we would spend less time arguing over little details and more time having reasoned discussions over just which firearms restrictions we should implement next.
Your post doesn’t match your headline or the link.
Russians hacked it and changed the title.
Somebody’s got some gunsplainin’ to do
Naw... RemOil. Fish oil gets too sticky.
"more time having reasoned discussions over just which firearms restrictions we should implement next."
Reasoned discussions? With who? Every liberal I’ve tried to have a ‘reasoned discussion’ with starts name calling and condemning in about two minutes, right after the eye rolling.
See this video for a GREAT speech on guns. Delegate Freitas in Virginia.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqqJKChKRzI
I’m donating to this man’s Senate campaign.
:-)
I haven’t decided yet. I have heard there is at least one other good candidate, but I would find it difficult to believe VA could do any better than this. He sounds like he’d make a GREAT Senator!
ping to #9
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