Though I am on call if the weather gets better. And I'm still sick. I did a poor job of taking my medicine on schedule over the weekend, and now I am keeping track. Maybe that will help.
Something I dislike even more than the way people shout talking points past one another in the wake of firearms tragedy is the level of personal attack to which many descend. It is actually possible for people to have deep, fundamental disagreements without either one of them being evil or uncaring. But not, it seems, without them accusing one another of it.
BUILDING A 1:1 BALUN
4 years ago
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The internet is a huge enabler of jerkish behavior, sadly.
What Tam said.
"After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn't do it." - William S. Burroughs
Hi Roberta,
Sometimes I feel that conversation is a lost art.
Jerry
Actual conversation IS a lost art... Now it's 140/280 characters or a 10 second sound bite...
Tens of millions of firearms owners have spent their lives demonstrating that they can be trusted to own and keep firearms, and in fact that ownership is beneficial. This can be extended back to the days when there weren't a thousand firearms owners on the entire continent. When told they bear the responsibility for an atrocity which they did not commit, what's the appropriate response? And why should they not be suspicious of the motivations of those who hurl the blood libel at them? What would be an appropriate level of response to the lovingly worn old calumny? What "conversation" can be had?
Feel better soon.
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