Speakeasy forum: Exposing Liberal Media Hypocrisy

"THIS HOME IS PROUDLY GUN FREE!"

AND I'd put up another sign...A BIGGER sign

NOT SAYING THEY'RE AREN'T ANY BOBBY TRAPS

might provoke some neurotic or overly zealous person. I'd not put a sign up that indicated anything about whether a gun was or was not in my home. I feel the same about political signs. You don't know who drives by at night, what they think or what they've been drinking.

I have tried to search for pro-gun rallies by the NRA and come up empty. I find a movement called "Guns Across America" that holds or sponsors rallies but these don't seem to have NRA official backing. I see tons of schedules for anti-gun or pro gun control rallies. They tend to make the first and loudest noise when some shooting event lands in the media. I'm not an NRA member and would not think of joining but they do seem to be a more respectable organization than their tantrum throwing foes.

I have tried to search for pro-gun rallies by the NRA and come up empty.

Perhaps you should be looking for pro-gun rallies by Guns Across America

Thousands of gun advocates gathered peacefully Saturday at state capitals around the U.S. to rally against stricter limits on firearms, with demonstrators carrying rifles and pistols in some places while those elsewhere settled for waving hand-scrawled signs or screaming themselves hoarse.

The size of crowds at each location varied — from dozens of people in South Dakota to 2,000 in New York. Large crowds also turned out in Connecticut, Tennessee, Texas, Utah and Washington state. Some demonstrators in Olympia, Wash., Phoenix, Salem, Ore., and Salt Lake City came with holstered handguns or rifles on their backs. At the Kentucky Capitol in Frankfort, attendees gave a special round of applause for "the ladies that are packin'."

it says nothing about the consequences from the rest of society or from individuals.

It says you can't be prosecuted or persecuted by the government.

It doesn't say you can't be hated for what you say by individuals.

As for anyone that is willing to do harm to you in thefirst place, the first amendment means little.

hypocrisy. It is all part of the same "greasy pole" of political advancement and advantage, particularly when it is a myth born of the attempt to gain political advantage! It was that way in the Greek polis, the Roman Empire, and probably every political construct in history. The search for advantage and supremacy is one of humanity's characteristics. We are all the children of people who won the competition to survive and prevail (see Richard Dawkins: The Selfish Gene).

The problem arises when we confuse the issue with morality. You don't like Liberals as a class of people, I don't like Conservatives as a class of people. As individuals in our private lives we treat people we like differently from the people we don't like. The comment "Some of my best friends are Conservatives" isn't contradictory for me, or probably for you regarding people you know personally who might be more liberal than you are. Otherwise both of our social circles would be more circumscribed than they are.

Get a grip and get with reality (which I would say jokingly if I were speaking to you in person and had by some quirk become friendly). As it stands, with us at loggerheads (and just what is a loggerhead?), I say, "stop being so naieve".

BTW, odds are that "loggerheads" refers to that old favourite - the head-butting contest (physically, I mean) - which has probably been a feature of the human race since before it came down out of the trees. Stevedores in New Orleans used to butt heads to see who was toughest. Irishmen, and probably every social order in creation, used to do the same thing. It's what fuelled boxing and other sports and every competition since the beginning of time.

Rob