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In reply to the discussion: Questions for gun control advocates, part 1 [View all]pablo_marmol
(2,375 posts)19. Outstanding post Shamash. I expect you'll be getting nothing but dodges and slurs, though.
For a few years now I've kept a group of elementary "Gun Control Knowledge Tests" in the trunk of my car in a binder. The tests mostly ask questions that everyone should know the answers to before opening their mouths on the issue of gun violence. Questions such as "Explain in general terms what's been going on with the U.S. crime rate the last four decades." Some true/false, some multiple choice, and a few essay questions - like the one just mentioned. And all rigorously cited via a separate set of pages.
Whenever some pro-restriction ignoramus starts talking their usual trash, I ask: "Hypothetically speaking, if I were able to go out to my car and return with a very rudimentary Gun Control Knowledge Test -- would you be willing to take it?" This has never failed to shut them up.....and expose them for the blowhards that they are. Any of the pro-RKBA Dem regulars could create a GCKT as quickly as I did, I'm sure. Plus, with the high percentage of folks who have smart phones you can demonstrate that you're able to back up your statements while The Controllers flounder.
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Question: why do all the questions assume a deadly, mobile, concealable WMD is a fluffy toy? Unneeded gun ownership is terrorism.
Fred Sanders
Jun 2015
#1
The inference says volumes about cartoon scrapers/Third Way® apologists...
friendly_iconoclast
Jun 2015
#15
Reposting cartoons, while insulting others, is easy. Answering questions is hard
friendly_iconoclast
Jun 2015
#16
Outstanding post Shamash. I expect you'll be getting nothing but dodges and slurs, though.
pablo_marmol
Jun 2015
#19
"(S)ubjective gibberish"? I'll gladly stipulate your expertise on the subject...
friendly_iconoclast
Jun 2015
#90
Some Palin-level 'legal scholars' seem to have a problem with that...
friendly_iconoclast
Jun 2015
#75