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dlk

(11,514 posts) Thu Feb 15, 2018, 06:20 PM Feb 2018

The NRA Has Successfully Framed the Gun Debate as Either/Or With No Middle Ground

We need to reframe the debate as "and." We can keep Americans safe and a have Second Amendment. The NRA has created an all or nothing argument and every day Americans pay with their lives. We need to change the frame.

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The NRA Has Successfully Framed the Gun Debate as Either/Or With No Middle Ground (Original Post) dlk Feb 2018 OP

I wouldn't want to see it grumpyduck Feb 2018 #1

right wing/conservative views are extreme black and white - no middle ground NRaleighLiberal Feb 2018 #2

Republicans Use Fear to Motivate and Manipulate dlk Feb 2018 #3

grumpyduck

(6,224 posts)

1. I wouldn't want to see it

Reply to dlk (Original post)

Thu Feb 15, 2018, 06:44 PM

Feb 2018

"two wrongs don't make a right" and all those old school cliches notwithstanding, but I'd be really curious as to what the NRA response would be if someone took out a few of their top leadership with an AR-15.

NRaleighLiberal

(60,006 posts)

2. right wing/conservative views are extreme black and white - no middle ground

Reply to dlk (Original post)

Thu Feb 15, 2018, 06:47 PM

Feb 2018

this is not surprising - it is authoritarian in nature.

dlk

(11,514 posts)

3. Republicans Use Fear to Motivate and Manipulate

Reply to dlk (Original post)

Thu Feb 15, 2018, 06:51 PM

Feb 2018

Time to call for all of the advertising wizards to create a new frame for the debate.

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