[Vision2020] House Bill 222 - Weapons on campus

[Saundra Lund]

I suppose I'd phrase it a little differently:  to me, the shame of
contemporary politics with respect to gun laws is that otherwise reasonable
people have been brainwashed to think that there needs to be no, or very
minimal, regulation guns.

I think I've mentioned before that my very politically conservative gun
enthusiast but not brain-dead brother works in law enforcement in
California.  Even he's found the NRA leadership direction & tactics sheer
lunacy for years now.

I know the NRA is proud as heck that it's dominated the conversation & has
been incredibly successful at brainwashing politicians into thinking it
speaks for the majority when that's flatly not true.  Personally, I don't
find successful wholesale deception and advocacy beyond absurdity anything
to be proud of.



Saundra Lund
Moscow, ID

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good people to do
nothing.
~ Edmund Burke

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-----Original Message-----
From: Joe Campbell [mailto:philosopher.joe at gmail.com] 
Sent: Friday, March 11, 2011 4:26 AM
To: Saundra Lund
Cc: Lynn McCollough; <vision2020 at moscow.com>
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] House Bill 222 - Weapons on campus

Saundra wrote:

> I can't help but editorialize:  yet *another* example to defeat the 
> rationale (and I use the term loosely) of gun nuts.

This is the shame of a lot of contemporary politics: the rhetoric is so
polarized and over the top that rational discussion of gun laws and other
issues is impossible.