Glenn E. Meyer
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While debating this issue is fun, fair warning that it can lead to your demise on this forum.
So let's watch for rants and the points above that liberal and conservative are ill-defined and behavior is multicausal is well taken.
One point that isn't mention is that opposition to firearms by some 'liberals' is that some 'conservative' supporters of guns have social beliefs antithetical to liberals. The cheap and extreme example is the Nazi at the gun show. Haven't seen that many lately though.
If you don't know anything about guns and see folks brandishing weapons and exposing really awful beliefs and/or threats, naturally you think owning weapons is a bad thing. Folks make most decisions based on emotion rather than a rational analysis of cost/benefit. One outrageous gun portray negates a discussion of how many lives are saved, cars are more dangerous, etc. People just don't think that way. Economists learned that the rational decision models just aren't the way it happens in real life.
However, some gun folk shy away from this negative and how it impacts gun attitudes. I know some folks in the NRA who cringed when Heston sometimes wandered into antigay rhetoric or the like.
Anyway, in the last thread I referenced by piece that I wrote by invitation for the NTI guys and was told I was tooting my own horn and some folks ranted and got the electronic COM. Just watch out.
So let's watch for rants and the points above that liberal and conservative are ill-defined and behavior is multicausal is well taken.
One point that isn't mention is that opposition to firearms by some 'liberals' is that some 'conservative' supporters of guns have social beliefs antithetical to liberals. The cheap and extreme example is the Nazi at the gun show. Haven't seen that many lately though.
If you don't know anything about guns and see folks brandishing weapons and exposing really awful beliefs and/or threats, naturally you think owning weapons is a bad thing. Folks make most decisions based on emotion rather than a rational analysis of cost/benefit. One outrageous gun portray negates a discussion of how many lives are saved, cars are more dangerous, etc. People just don't think that way. Economists learned that the rational decision models just aren't the way it happens in real life.
However, some gun folk shy away from this negative and how it impacts gun attitudes. I know some folks in the NRA who cringed when Heston sometimes wandered into antigay rhetoric or the like.
Anyway, in the last thread I referenced by piece that I wrote by invitation for the NTI guys and was told I was tooting my own horn and some folks ranted and got the electronic COM. Just watch out.