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DonP

(6,185 posts)
9. IMHO, it's decades of "programming"
Sat Jan 16, 2016, 10:27 AM
Jan 2016

The majority of the people with those "intelligent opinions" on other issues just aren't directly involved or interested in the RKBA issue. But they want to be "popular" with the crowd.

They just go by what they pick up peripherally from the media (anti RKBA) and the opinions of others on DU and other sites, (mostly anti RKBA).

If they see something that claims that 75% of NRA members want something, they just take it as fact, never questioning, "Gee, why would the NRA let gun control people survey their membership?"

It's just a peripheral issue to them and they jump on what they think is a populist bandwagon, it's easier than getting up to speed on a complex issue ... and won't take time away from the important work of pissing on each other's leg over the primaries.

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A Gun Grab would never happen, unless the path towards Conservative Fascism continues. TheBlackAdder Jan 2016 #1
The logic problems with that article about logic problems discntnt_irny_srcsm Jan 2016 #2
Nice job. Eleanors38 Jan 2016 #3
thanks discntnt_irny_srcsm Jan 2016 #5
Yes........excellent job. pablo_marmol Jan 2016 #4
Perhaps I just don't understand them discntnt_irny_srcsm Jan 2016 #7
They have twisted at least some of the arguments. beevul Jan 2016 #6
How is it possible? discntnt_irny_srcsm Jan 2016 #8
IMHO, it's decades of "programming" DonP Jan 2016 #9
That's sad discntnt_irny_srcsm Jan 2016 #10
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