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To: FJB who wrote (988963)	12/19/2016 11:44:33 AM
From: bentway	Respond to of 1569677

Fact checking Gandhi on Guns: To Lie is to Lose Excerpt: penigma.blogspot.com ...And when it came to his own participation on the side of the English in WW I, Gandhi joined the ambulance corps in 1914, stating: “A rifle this hand will never fire.” In that context, could the images of Gandhi advocating for more guns be more wrong? Could the right, the pro-gunners who promote this lie be more dishonest? There is nothing more obscene, more false than the notion that Gandhi was 'pro-gun', especially pro-gun for private gun ownership rather than a national military. When a side of an argument lies like this, far more so than any bogus reference to Hitler and Nazis, they have a failed position - a position they resist correcting. *The values party supports the value of lying and that the end justifies the means.* Their lying is deliberate, their refusal to correct or revise proves it. Gandhi = Guns? Gandhi advocates 'lock and load'? Gandhi as Rambo? No, emphatically NO. Bad. Wrong. To lie is to lose. The pro-gun / Gandhi advocates are epic failures, with a losing premise; they underline the end of the failing American gun culture...