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Originally Posted by twinklesweep
Bucco, I am sorry that you feel "used"; please accept that that was not my intention. Rather, I was using the point you made about not simply reading a headline and deciding what the article was going to say, rather than actually--and thoughtfully--reading the article.
We are in agreement about the problems with the article. What is unfortunate is that this is the person the NRA chose to represent it! He is as emotional in some of his comments as others are accused of being in responding to this issue, and he obfuscates it with unrelated points which, to me at least, come across as smokescreens rather than "sticking to the facts."
Again, my thoughts are about the presentation in the article, not the views of one side or the other of this debate. Thank you again for your suggestion to examine the article closely. An article like this would make a good class exercise for high school students.
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The issue is now POLITICAL !!!! It needs to be allowed to be discussed by adults OUTSIDE THE POLITICAL ARENA and I am betting there would be great compromise and solutions.
Articles and headlines like the one we are discussing are maybe the most irritating thing to me today. If your only source is a source like the one used to present that article, you are very uninformed but do not even know it.
It indeed WOULD make a great presentation......it manifests our problems in politics and communications in this day. It manifests what folks THINK is journalism and the type that needs to be avoided if you have any integrity at all.
I do not know guns...that I admit....but I can very easily identify the misleading attempts by some to misinform and if they read things like this...it is just plain not telling the truth.
Note from a personal standpoint....I have, at times, when found to have presented something that was misleading or not true, come back to the thread and admitted it was an error. I mention this because folks DO make mistakes in presenting, but if it is just a mistake, you come back and apologize. Some present these things with no thought and could care less if it is wrong or right....just make sure it feeds their agenda.
Enough said on this......as I said early on in this thread, I never posted until this crap about NRA and stand your ground...an attempt once again to make it political and I find that offensive.
I believe we can solve so many problems if we just leave the D or the R out of the equation, stop listening to those folks on tv....read and allow professionals to do their job. Being informed on subjects sure makes it easier to understand what is happening in this world.