>From: Lee Daniel Crocker <lee@piclab.com>
>
> >> Your phrase, "an organization that fights to keep more guns than people
> >> in circulation" is obviously pejorative and not conducive to polite
> >> disagreement. Please reconsider using such language.
>
> > I politely disagree. A statement of fact, no matter how blunt, is
> > neither pejorative nor inconducive to polite disagreement. If I had
> > called the NRA and its sympathizers "violent antisocial irrational
> > paranoid maniacs," *that* would be pejorative.
>
>Your so-called statement of fact is a statement about the desired goal
>of an organization. Since it is contrary to the publicly stated goals
>of that organization, and contrary to the personal goals of everyone I
>have ever met who belongs to that organization it is not only pejorative
>but clearly a delibrate lie to discredit an opponent you know little
>about rather than having to do the hard work of arguing actual facts.
Is it not true that the NRA opposes virtually *every* single piece of
gun-control legislation that comes down the pike? Is it not true that the
NRA opposes any attempt reduce the production of new guns? Is it not true
that the NRA is opposed to reducing the number of guns now in circulation?
Is it not true that there are more guns in America than there are Americans?
Is it not true that the NRA sees no problem with the ratio of guns to
people? Please stop me when I've said something that is not true.
-Zero
"I like dreams of the future better than the history of the past"
--Thomas Jefferson
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