More on the KT Ordinance raid

[antarti]

Does somebody's poor excercise of the 1st Amendment somehow limit their enjoyment of the 2nd?

I hope everybody makes sure the ATF's latest victims aren't too rich, too poor, too well spoken, too soft-spoken, too dramatic, too farcical, or otherwise worthy of our attentions before responding, i.e. not 'you'.

After all, it'll be a long, long time before they get around to good, honest, white-collar, well-educated, articulate, monied, and good-looking people like myself.



This is one of the reasons I hardly lurk here anymore: self-defeatists bore me.

 

[carebear]

Saying "hey, you could have said that better" doesn't have anything to do with believing someone deserves fewer rights.

As the rewrite shows, you can make the same exact points in a way that WON'T offend fencesitters and in fact might bring them to your side.

We need votes on these issues people, we are a minority. You don't get votes by alienating middle America or scaring soccer moms. You get votes by being the most sensible, most logical, most reasonable side in the argument.

That way the ANTI'S get to be the ones sounding like frothing at the mouth extremists.