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   DrCanuck said, 6 months ago

   ^ “I used to like that guy.”

   
   Then he said something that I disagreed with and my feelings instantly turned to endless hatred. It’s the Conservative way.
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   flake-67121 said, 6 months ago

   “It’s the Conservative way.”
   what, learning new information and using it to inform your opinions? What’s your way?
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   Donald Williams said, 6 months ago

   @flake-67121

   what, learning new information and using it to inform your opinions?
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   I believe you might have misinterpreted.
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   As I see it, DrCanuck has expressed the idea that the character in the lower right (Asay perhaps?) already had formulated an opinion and had his mind made up.
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   Costas said something that called into question that firmly-held opinion and -Asay’s- the reaction is “I used to like that guy.”
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   Frankly, I disagree with the conclusion that they “…both would be alive today”; guns are not the only means to commit murder and suicide.
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   But each is entitled to his own opinion.
   
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   DrCanuck said, 6 months ago

   @Donald Williams

   No, what I am pointing out is the conservatives’ inability to differentiate an idea from the person who holds the idea. It’s quite impossible for them to still like a person who holds an opinion different from theirs. That situation immediately makes him the ENEMY.
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   exoticdoc2 said, 6 months ago

   @DrCanuck

   More canuck spewing his mindless liberal bilge and his arrogant, illogical, inconsistent worldview.
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   omQ R said, 6 months ago

   @exoticdoc2

   Inconsistent? Illogical? Au contraire. Quite logical. He’s pointing out that some folks cannot differentiate between an idea held by someone from the person who holds it.
   I often fall into that trap myself. At least I admit it.
   I think you like to call it: “Hate the sin, love the sinner”. Does it make it easier to understand the concept if I say it that way?
   
   You should stop hating so much though.
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   Bob Hobbs said, 6 months ago

   What the hell do handguns have to do with the constitution?
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   Kingoswald said, 6 months ago

   “Blame the constitution” – or suggest that one fragment of a useful document drawn up by Eighteenth century gentleman farmers for a federation of small far-flung agricultural communities newly emerged from a revolutionary war might need a little tweaking for a massive 21st Century post-industrial country?
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   DrCanuck said, 6 months ago

   @omQ R

   Notice how exoticdoc did EXACTLY what I said he’d do?

   
   I’ve sure got HIS number.
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    lonecat said, 6 months ago

    @Kingoswald

    It’s a slippery slope. Once you start messing with the Constitution, what’s next? The Bible?
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    Anthony 2816 said, 6 months ago

    If the Founding Fathers didn’t feel we should have the right to own and shoot revolvers, rifles, sawed-off shotguns, machine guns, rocket-propelled grenade launchers, and shoulder-mounted tactical nuclear missiles, they wouldn’t have written the 2nd amendment.
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    coraryan said, 6 months ago

    If he hadn’t had a gun, he would have used a knife, a baseball bat, his fists, whatever was handy. The gun has nothing to do with, violence and perhaps drugs, has everything to do with it.
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    Donald Williams said, 6 months ago

    @DrCanuck

    No, what I am pointing out is the conservatives’ inability to differentiate an idea from the person who holds the idea.
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    This leads me to believe that we are saying the same thing, but with different words:
    1) Me:
    The “Asay” character has a strong opinion that is countered by Costas (or anyone else) and when confronted with a different perspective says, “I used to like that guy” (making him an enemy).
    2) You:
    No, what I am pointing out is the conservatives’ inability to differentiate an idea from the person who holds the idea.
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    Aren’t they the same?
    
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    Donald Williams said, 6 months ago

    @lonecat

    Once you start messing with the Constitution, what’s next? The Bible?
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    Donald Williams said, 6 months ago

    @Bob Hobbs

    What the hell do handguns have to do with the constitution?
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    Seriously?
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    Seriously?
    
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