Quote:The anti gun and anti flag folks pounced almost immediately.  It's what they do. 

Having your defense on the field 100% of the time must be tiring.

 

I don't identify with the anti-gun nuts any more than I identify with the gun nuts, and my issue with the Confederate flag is that it represents treason, not that it represents slavery or racism. If you were to comment that Obama was way out of line bringing gun control into his address on the shooting, I'd have agreed with you, but let's not pretend that jumping all over an issue and politicizing it is a uniquely left-wing phenomenon. A senior representative of the NRA put out a statement that literally blamed the pastor of the church for the shootings. The head of the South Carolina Sons of the Confederacy put out a statement that was little more than a slanted history lesson, which ended with a very blunt assertion that there is no correlation between the rebel flag and racism, and "don't try to create one."

 

I can't help but notice that in this forum in particular, participants in a debate either agree with you or are ignorant or unintelligent. Stop being so ignorant as to paint the right wing as a bunch of intelligent, enlightened folk, and the left wing as loud-mouthed un-American whiners. Take a look at the American political landscape, maybe read a little beyond the first page of foxnews.com, and you'll see that there are plenty of idiots to go around.

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