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Gun Control & RKBA

beevul

(12,194 posts) Sun May 8, 2016, 10:25 PM May 2016

Has anyone else noticed lately... [View all]

Has anyone else noticed lately, the subtle attempts to reframe our rights as "hobbies", by some of the usual suspects?

I guess maybe they figure that it sounds a lot better if they say "We demand you give up your hobby for x..." than to come out and say "We demand you give up your rights for X...".

I just wondered if I was the only one who noticed.

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Has anyone else noticed lately... [View all] beevul May 2016 OP

odd that people would think that as the corpses pile up bt msongs May 2016 #1

You seem peculiarly obsessed with corpses, so I ask you: Eleanors38 May 2016 #7

It is a hobby for me HassleCat May 2016 #2

Just more culture war stuff DonP May 2016 #3

I've noticed it before. theatre goon May 2016 #4

I've noticed the gun control extremists seem even more shrill and delusional then normal Lurks Often May 2016 #5

Reframe the argument, move the goalposts, appeal to emotion.... CompanyFirstSergeant May 2016 #6

I have noticed a re-visitation to that silliness, and other outlooks. Like cartoonists... Eleanors38 May 2016 #8

I share that hopeful optimism. beevul May 2016 #9

It's just part of the bigger problem discntnt_irny_srcsm May 2016 #10

This is strictly speculation on my part... theatre goon May 2016 #12

Yup. eom Kang Colby May 2016 #11