If you have never heard of George Soros, you have your head in the sand. He's the far-left billionaire with an agenda. You know the type- he's been there, and now he knows more than we do about everything, and he's going to use his billions to tell us what and how we're going to do things. Not that there is anything wrong with having an opinion- but there is something a little despicable about using money in place of numbers of people to get a movement going. Moveon.org is one of Soros's children, along with many, many anti-gun groups. He pretty much spearheaded the disarmament of many Aussies, and is very much in favor of letting the Blue Helmets regulate the US right to keep and bear arms, among many other relevant topics.
He also founded the Open Society Institute, which does something somewhere somehow. Their money also finds its way into anti-gun hands.
Now, proceed to www.idebate.org, an offshoot in some way or another of the OSI. Search for the debate on gun control- a "pros" and "cons" list is on the page. It actually isn't all that badly done, except that it lacks facts supporting either argument (which was intentional to remove evident bias). However, when examining the list of topics, one finds that apparently idebate has come to a consensus on the issue (With only one post in its discussion, that seems to be pro-rights). You will notice, and I am quoting from memory, that it says...
"This House moves that there is no right to bear arms.
This House moves for more gun control.
This house moves to prise the musket from Charlton Heston's cold dead hands"
Or something very close to that.
I have not yet joined the site, so I don't know how the site works. I assume- and it seems to be true- that that list (One is shown for every topic) is the "consensus" that the editor seems to feel was reached. It seems as if the editor or writer was trying to be funny, but in reality he was just being narrowminded.
It's mostly nutty things on the site, like "This house moves to make the US pay reparations", and that sort of thing- stuff of a very "let's get the government to do everything for us" nature. Not the sort of thing that any fair debate would actually reach, as everyone knows that in a fair debate you always end up with some sort of compromise.
I was thinking of how nice it might be for us to provide plenty of supporting arguments for the 2A and RKBA position- not that that is hard. There doesn't seem to be much debate, really, at all. Much of what there is looks like some form of ridiculous leetspeak. However, give it a try.
Wouldn't it be nice if we could make a Soros funded initiative actually support an actual freedom- and this one in particular?
Now, if 2A posters could have such an impact as to create a site called "People of the Gun" after a long series of posts on an anti's worthless and racist rants, we could really have some fun with this.
He also founded the Open Society Institute, which does something somewhere somehow. Their money also finds its way into anti-gun hands.
Now, proceed to www.idebate.org, an offshoot in some way or another of the OSI. Search for the debate on gun control- a "pros" and "cons" list is on the page. It actually isn't all that badly done, except that it lacks facts supporting either argument (which was intentional to remove evident bias). However, when examining the list of topics, one finds that apparently idebate has come to a consensus on the issue (With only one post in its discussion, that seems to be pro-rights). You will notice, and I am quoting from memory, that it says...
"This House moves that there is no right to bear arms.
This House moves for more gun control.
This house moves to prise the musket from Charlton Heston's cold dead hands"
Or something very close to that.
I have not yet joined the site, so I don't know how the site works. I assume- and it seems to be true- that that list (One is shown for every topic) is the "consensus" that the editor seems to feel was reached. It seems as if the editor or writer was trying to be funny, but in reality he was just being narrowminded.
It's mostly nutty things on the site, like "This house moves to make the US pay reparations", and that sort of thing- stuff of a very "let's get the government to do everything for us" nature. Not the sort of thing that any fair debate would actually reach, as everyone knows that in a fair debate you always end up with some sort of compromise.
I was thinking of how nice it might be for us to provide plenty of supporting arguments for the 2A and RKBA position- not that that is hard. There doesn't seem to be much debate, really, at all. Much of what there is looks like some form of ridiculous leetspeak. However, give it a try.
Wouldn't it be nice if we could make a Soros funded initiative actually support an actual freedom- and this one in particular?
Now, if 2A posters could have such an impact as to create a site called "People of the Gun" after a long series of posts on an anti's worthless and racist rants, we could really have some fun with this.