I’ve joined the ranks of others who have been banned from
posting on the “Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America” Facebook page. My
crime? I disagreed with their position and had the audacity to say so in a
comment on August 19, 2013.
Not all my friends agree with my positions on the 2nd
Amendment / gun rights / gun control. Some have debated with me or asked me to
clarify or consider alternative perspectives. Not one has told me they think I
express myself abrasively, abusively or otherwise offensively. In fact, I’ve
been complimented by friends that both agree and disagree with my positions for
keeping the conversation civil and for backing up my thoughts and opinions with
sources – articles and data. They appreciate the factual basis of my arguments.
That’s not to say everything I write is factual. I’ve introduced a fair amount
of opinion, sarcasm, etc., but not the insulting language very typical from
both sides of the gun control debate.
But that approach isn’t good enough for gun control
advocates like Moms Demand Action… and others. They don’t want to debate. They
don’t want to hear the opposition. And they most certainly don’t want their
audiences to read or hear it. They think it’s okay to attend political meetings
and shout down candidates with opposing views but then won’t even let opponents
comment on their Facebook pages.
This is the second time I’ve been banned from a Facebook
page. The other? The other is on the page of an Illinois state politician. He’s
a Democrat. He’s an outspoken advocate of gun control. I found out after I’d
been banned from commenting on his page that before holding office he was
actually employed in a gun control advocacy position. Oh, and I went to high
school with him. We weren’t close friends or anything but I connected with him
on Facebook and another social media site because of our past high school and
football team associations. So even people with a shared past are not invited
to participate in open debate when they disagree with the gun control agenda.
How can we ever trust the opposition when they don’t even
want to have a fair, open and honest debate? What they’d rather infringe on 1st
Amendment rights in order to infringe on 2nd Amendment rights? We
can’t.
Below is a link to the Moms Demand Action… post that I commented on. My
comment has been removed but I’ve included it here in its entirety following
the link. In terms of chronology, my post would have been #95,
I believe.
“How misleading can you be? "MINORS"? If you want
to disagree or debate, at least be honest about it. People of age 18+ in our
country are not legal minors. Yes, I know "minors" appears in the
article headlines of the left-leaning Salon and Huffington Post, but it doesn't
appear in other media headlines or even in the bodies of the Salon and HP
articles.
From the comments above, several of you seem in favor of the
drinking prohibition before age 21 but much of the world doesn't operate that
way. You obviously want the handgun age limit maintained at 21 (or worse). How
about voting rights? Shall we push back voting rights to age 21 too? If you
want to make the argument that "minority" status should be pushed
back to 21 across the board then have that argument. But know that if you push
back the voting age of the so-called "minors" that you'll lose a
large portion of the uninformed voters who support liberal or progressive
politicians.
Current law already allows 18-20 year olds to own guns, at
least in some states - rifles and shotguns - as well as to "possess"
handguns. If these impulsive, emotional and not fully developed young men so
many of you are worried about wanted to go on a killing rampage of a single
person or a group, they can already do it with those tools, pressure cookers,
or others.
There was a comment above by @Susie B Grande saying "19
year olds should not be able to access guns." "Access"? Really?
There goes a huge portion of our military - the very people who provided you
with the freedom to express your opinion. No one should be allowed to learn to
hunt before 21? No one should be allowed to enjoy target shooting? Sorry, Boy
Scouts of America. Too bad for those families whose teenage children have used
guns to defend their families in their homes. I've read 2-3 of those stories
just this year, including one today. Those are just the ones I've come across.
I don't search them out. And no opportunity for parents to teach responsible
gun ownership and use in a consistent and repetitive manner to children as they
grow up? If you mean "own
guns" then say that. "Access" has an entirely different meaning
and takes the argument to a different level. Are you aware of the teenagers in
our age who literally hunt without parental supervision to put essential food
on their tables? Susie, as easily as you tell someone that they're 'part of the
problem' because they agree with the NRA's position on this issue, you are part
of the problem of the erosion of our Constitutional and civil liberties.
How old do you think the soldiers and militiamen of our
American Revolution and Civil War were? And those who fought in Vietnam? Iraq
& Afghanistan?”
===
August 22, 2013
I found this article about the intolerance of Moms Demand Action interesting, particularly in light of my post yesterday.
http://www.ammoland.com/2013/08/who-knew-moms-were-so-intolerant-of-your-constitutional-rights/#axzz2ciWXlaUd
===
August 22, 2013
I found this article about the intolerance of Moms Demand Action interesting, particularly in light of my post yesterday.
http://www.ammoland.com/2013/08/who-knew-moms-were-so-intolerant-of-your-constitutional-rights/#axzz2ciWXlaUd
===
Related blogs:
http://us2ndamendment.blogspot.com/2013/08/speech-and-debate-banned-by-gun-control.html
Firearms Blog Collections
No comments:
Post a Comment