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Gun Control & RKBA

branford

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6. It's a common phenomena concerning many issues.

Reply to Jerry442 (Reply #2)

Fri Jan 8, 2016, 03:38 PM

Jan 2016

When you meet a nice person of good character who holds some religious or political opinion with which you previously disagreed, confronting a real person, rather than the political caricatures advanced by ideologues of all persuasions, it often leads to serious reevaluation of prior beliefs, and such humanization very often changes opinions or reduces binary or uncompromising thinking.

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Discoveries of an Anti-Gunner: My Conversion to the Other Side [View all] jonno99 Jan 2016 OP

which is why EdwardBernays Jan 2016 #1

That was an excellent use of sarcasm. -eom gcomeau Jan 2016 #3

In ethnically & religiously homogeneous societies, this is generally true. jonno99 Jan 2016 #4

Not even close to being true EdwardBernays Jan 2016 #7

Sorry if I was unclear; it was not my intent to link diversity & crime. My thinking was more along jonno99 Jan 2016 #11

hmmm EdwardBernays Jan 2016 #12

I'll give you 99 to one odds... Jerry442 Jan 2016 #2

Could be - the article dosn't give many clues in that regard. You say it however, jonno99 Jan 2016 #5

People don't usually change world views casually. Jerry442 Jan 2016 #8

"People don't usually change world views casually." Unless they realize that jonno99 Jan 2016 #10

It's a common phenomena concerning many issues. branford Jan 2016 #6

She didn't give up binary thinking -- just flipped her bits, so to speak. nt Jerry442 Jan 2016 #9

In my early college daze, I believed in marijuana prohibition... Eleanors38 Jan 2016 #13

It sounds like you're saying women think with their vaginas. Nuclear Unicorn Jan 2016 #14

I thought it was insulting when I first read that discntnt_irny_srcsm Jan 2016 #15