Reply #75: Now or later. [View All]

[gorfle]

You are NOW in the middle of an election campaign. What you did in other circumstances is of no relevance.

Your post insinuated that this was some new discussion coming up solely because we are in the middle of an election. My point is that if we've been discussing it for years, why stop now just because of an election campaign?

(a) Assertion oft made, never demonstrated to be true or even reasonable.

I do not think it is unreasonable that some of the 80 million firearm owners in this country are single-issue voters and/or will not vote for someone who is anti-firearm. Firearm owners have demonstrated themselves to be highly motivated voters and even Bill Clinton has cited them as the reason for the Democratic loss of congress after the assault weapons ban.

It is thus also reasonable that by adopting a pro-firearm stance some portion of those 80 million voters would vote for Obama whereas otherwise they would not. Perhaps not enough to win by a landslide, but in a tight race, why throw away votes especially over an immoral cause?

(b) So would publicly disavowing women's reproductive rights.

The difference is, of course, that the right to keep and bear arms is a moral, just cause empowering personal freedom and responsibility, whereas violating women's reproductive rights is not.

How many times ...

I don't know how many times you will continue to throw out the red herring of abortion in gun control discussions.