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johnnyFive  ·  2223 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: A conservative argument for gun violence restraining orders

    I said "assault style rifles"....

Except this is a meaningless statement. "Assault style rifle" can mean whatever the speaker chooses, and is a completely arbitrary distinction. It's a classic motte and bailey.

You're moving the goalposts every time, while simply ignoring the things you can't actually argue against. You won't actually engage with my counterarguments, instead refusing to acknowledge them as such and hiding behind personal affront when I disagree with you. You have the gall to describe all gun owners as brainwashed psychos, but then I'm the one unwilling to engage in "decent discourse" when I suggest your position is unsupportable? Rather than acknowledge your factual inaccuracies, you're trying to turn this around so that I'm somehow being unreasonable by expecting you to understand the thing you're talking about.

You're clearly unwilling to come at this in good faith. I have no doubt you'll find a reason that this is my fault, too.