"Gunner" wrote in message
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On Thu, 25 Nov 2004 22:26:55 -0500, "Ed Huntress"
wrote:


Nope, the magazines don't create the image problem OR the real problem.

Yeah, it did. Half the copy written about it concerns the size of the
magazine -- which everyone seems to think is different, but they all
think
is big.

That's the big bogeyman, Watcher. While you're spinning cockamamie
justifications for ridiculous magazines, you're digging a big hole for
gun
owners everywhere.

Have fun cooking up another story. Maybe, like Larry, you anticipate a
swarming hoard of Muslims who got past the US Navy, the US Air Force, the
US
Army and the National Guard, and who decided to attack your front porch.

Pathological paranoia is not an argument that sits well in gun-control
debates.

Ed Huntress

Neither is ignoring the intent of the Second Amendment, or the fact
that Writers...folks like You, Ed, have done most of the damage via
propaganda and the Big Lie.

"Writers"? You mean, it doesn't matter what they write, just whether or not
they're "writers"? If you follow that logic, Gunner, you're the same as any
mass murderer. You're both gun owners.

Its not the NRA, Ed..its your ilk that is the problem.

No, you're the problem, Gunner. And I mean that sincerely. You, and people
like you, are the reason there is gun control. And that's because a lot of
the people in this country just don't trust you. And *that's* because you
posture about guns as if they have no relation to the levels of violent
crime, as if they are irrelevant.

You play a game of "pretend," confusing transparent denial with the
principle of rights. Almost everyone knows you're full of it in that regard;
some of them are as wacky as you, and go along with your wackiness because
it supports what they want, too; but a substantial number of people refuse
to buy into your wackiness. And then they consider the fact that you, and
your wacky ideas, are in possession of guns.

That's the whole genesis of it. The people who are most adamantly for and
against gun control tend to be a little nutty -- clowns to the left, jokers
to the right. Not that it's nutty to oppose gun control. It's just that the
nuttiest ones tend to be most adamantly against it.

And thus, you've convinced a significant part of the population that
somebody had better keep some reigns on you and your ilk, and, while they're
at it, the rest of us gun owners. Thanks a lot.

Ed Huntress