Kontradictions: Dear Gun Control Democrats: 6 Ways to Make a Better Argument

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Monday April 29, 2013 · 11:41 AM PDT

2013/04/29 · 11:41

The article is from 4/20, but I have not found it referenced here on DK. I will not re-post without permission, so here is the link.
Dear Gun Control Democrats: 6 Ways to Make a Better Argument

Kontra expounds on six changes Democrats who champion gun control could make to demonstrate a clearer stance in the debate.

If you then win the election, do not go on to fully support gun bans in two US cities – Chicago and D.C. – in which law-abiding citizens are disarmed, citing them as models for gun policy while trying to convince the rest of the country that you really aren’t interested in banning their guns. (Guess which two US cities you’re most likely to be killed by a gun in.)

New rule: If you don’t know how guns work, you don’t get to craft legislation about them. There is nothing so embarrassing as watching a Democratic politician who has never held a gun in their life attempt to talk about why and how they should be regulated.

Children are no longer just pawns in the gun control story. They are now integral players. Sometimes the stories play out like Obama’s photo-op above. Sometimes they were never supposed to be stories in the first place.

The comments are worth a read as well.

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