Ivan,
I don’t want to “pull a Clinton” and argue over the definition of “is”
, but the term
anti-gun can be applied in various “strengths”.
To me, the hard-core anti-gunner hates all guns and wants them confiscated and
destroyed. True, many of the hard-core are women. Lack of pleasant experiences with
firearms, jealousy, need for attention and other causes lead many of them to say all guns
are bad.
But is this gender-specific? We have a bunch of older men at our local VFW whom I
would call hard-core anti-gunners. I just don’t understand it. Some of these guys
truthfully were heroes in WWII and/or Korea. Now? Blech!
Depending upon how cynical I feel at the moment, I call gun owners “anti-gun” if they
only support their own narrow interests in firearms. For example, the deer hunters who
love their rifle but say handguns should be outlawed; skeet shooters who hate full-auto
firearms, etc.
There are some people who are somewhat anti-gun but realize it’s because they know
little about guns. Some of these folks we might call “fence sitters”. They might go either
way or stay the same. The more of these folks we can reach, the better.
So the term anti-gun or anti-gunner can be used by different folks in different ways - or
even in different ways by the same speaker.
As for trading “evil, foul speaking broads with a nice mix of foreign woman from around
the globe”? Well, different strokes for different folks. But be careful of how you develop
your selection criteria. There are many, many similar women overseas. Me? I say we
keep most of the American women we have; DC, MissDemeanor, Ladydeej, Darthmaum,
SideArmor and all the other ladies of TFL. (God help me! I’m SURE I missed some of
the ladies!!!)
I’d be willing to ship off Jane Fonda (even though she supposedly has rehabilitated herself)
and all the gun haters we love to hate (Feinstein, Boxer, Hillary, et al). But with our luck,
what we would get in return would be a Bridget Bardot (animal lover, gun hater, etc.) or
the female leader of the British Movement to Disarm the World!
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All,
Your support on this thread has rather overwhelmed me. Thank you very much for
assuming a one-shot, blurted comment was well thought out. (Wow! If only!!)
But I didn’t get my point across very well on this thread. I was trying to point out that the
argument, “if you have nothing to hide...” is a hateful excuse attempting to justify
excessive government intrusion into our private lives. I didn’t do very well on that, I
guess.
This thread is pretty long. Takes a long time to load. So I’ll lock the thread (if I can learn
how to do that
). If anyone wants to address the “if you have nothing to hide...”
concept, please start a new thread. Again, thank you all for your support. All the
back-pattin’ did my ole soul a lotta good.