Moderation be damned, apparently

[mousme]

Why oh why do I get into arguments with pro-gun people? WHY?

I am not anti-gun. I am pro-reasonable legislation. I think guns are useful tools for hunting and fun toys for target practice. They are also (regrettably) tools for professionals like soldiers and law enforcement officers.

Whenever I try to point out that guns are not a basic human right (I'm sorry, but they're not!), I am suddenly the Antichrist.

At least this time they're being polite about it. The last time I practically got accused of being anti-all civil rights.

*sigh*

I should know better. Apparently being shrill is the only way to be in this debate, no matter what side you're on. Heaven forfend anyone should take a middle-of-the-road approach.

Fuck this.

Also, this is NOT an invitation for a gun debate in my LJ. If anyone so much as fucking breathes in the direction of a debate (pro- or anti-), I will lock down the comments faster than you can say Bob's-your-uncle. Got it?

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If it makes you feel any better, there's probably still a price on my head where some former classmates are concerned. In US history class my junior year of high school, I made the mistake of saying I agreed, in part, with the South when we started discussing the Civil War. I didn't say I agreed with slavery, but I said I agreed with secession, to a point. Oh boy. My classmates were all over me in an instant, calling me racist, accusing me of being pro-slavery, and the occasional "white supremacist/Nazi" accusation. I countered by saying that Robert E. Lee had a choice whether to serve with the North or the South, and he chose to serve the South, even though he didn't agree with slavery. Nobody understood it, which makes me wonder how the hell they passed the class.

(Ironically, gun legislation is one of the areas where the concept of states rights has backfired in current times...)

*hands over tea*