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Politics : View from the Center and Left -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: ManyMoose who wrote (76587)	7/26/2008 3:58:49 AM
From: Cogito	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 543266

>>First of all, I do not believe I intimated that you are somehow less of an American than I. Nor do I have the slightest hint that you are anything less than the finest American out there. ... Moreover, and perhaps more importantly to my position, is that there is no organized effort to destroy the private ownership of cars, but there is a very definite organized effort that would be only too happy to do away with guns altogether. I feel bound by responsibility to resist this possibility with every ounce of my strength. << MM - I was reacting, mostly, to your blanket comments about liberals. Admittedly, you couched them with "some", but it seemed to me that you were saying liberals didn't respect other people's freedom, and that the "some" meant "a small minority might not be this way". Excuse me if I misinterpreted your meaning. As far as the organized effort to get rid of all guns, I think there's zero chance of that happening, because there really aren't enough people who want that. It's a fringe view, and thus, nothing to get worked up about. It's like how I don't get worked up about people who want to outlaw dancing because God says it's a sin. Outlawing dancing would be a terrible infringement of basic rights. But since those who advocate that comprise a tiny fringe element with just about zero influence, I don't lose any sleep over it. I do kind of know what you mean about people who "put on bunny suits" and go out to disrupt legal hunting. I think that one's a tough call, though. It's a form of civil disobedience, so in a way I'd support it. And certainly anyone who did that would have to be considered very brave. On the other hand, it isn't right to impede another citizen in doing something that is perfectly legal, like hunting. Here's a question. How do you feel about people who gather in front of reproductive health clinics and scream at young girls who are going into them? I'm assuming that you'd feel, as I do, that they are crossing a line between legal protest and harassment. Since I feel that way about the one type of case, I have to come down on the side of the hunters in the other. - Allen