Washington D.C. Mayor Vince Gray Protests a Billboard Advertising Gun-Safety Classes

[Hardtarget]

If you believe yourself to be a "2-A liberal", but, you keep helping to vote into office the anti 2-A politicians...you are the problem.

Mark

 

[jbrown50]

To be fair, in D.C.'s case, it's not merely an issue of liberalism, it's an issue of corruption as well. The D.C. government is notoriously corrupt, and even the most outrageously criminal behavior isn't enough to put an end to one's political career there (just look at Marion Barry). However, having said that, the corruption is at least partly due to the city government being so utterly dominated by liberal Democrats. Not that corruption is exclusive to Democrats or liberals by any means, but when one side, either side, comes to have pretty much a lock on the government, and the other is frozen almost completely out, corruption is almost sure to become more of a problem.

I think Billy Shears nailed it pretty good.

DC's one party monopoly is the main contributor to the problem. Rabidly anti-gun politicians such as Vincent Gray, Marion Barry, Michael Bloomberg, etc. can only get elected in urbanized areas because the collectivist mentality is the most prevalent there.

 

[Jinx D'jinn]

While guns and shooting are very important to me they are certainly not the final touchstone for who I decide to vote for.
Robert A. Heinlein once said that a government should not necessarily focus on doing good, instead it should focus on not doing evil. With that in mind I feel that the purpose of the government I live under should help the oldest, the youngest and those most vulnerable in our society.
Any politician who does not protect these people will not get my vote. If they are honest and honorable people I believe the electorate can reason with them and sway their actions. Unfortunately when a politician listens to reasoned, well meaning argument and modifies his stance to accomodate new facts he is often labled a "flipflopper". Quite frankly I prefer a "flipflopper" to someone who maintains the same opinion no matter what facts they are presented with.
The people I associate with in my "real world" try to maintain an attitude of nonduality. That means that we approach subjects from the point of view that a well meaning person can have a different opinion but that doesn't mean they are "wrong" or I am "right" it just means we have different world views. With that in mind we can often have a discussion and both sides can move to a place that is beneficial to both sides of the argument.
As for me, when I was younger I was "often wrong, but never uncertain". As I have gotten older I have found that whenever I am "certain" of something my opinion usually could stand a bit of examination. Anytime I find myself taking a self-rightous attitude I know I should re-examine myself.
But then, not having always been honorable in my younger years I find that I now try very hard to be honorable to myself and others.

 

[Jeff White]

Liberal/conservative...Democrat/republican....those debates have no place at THR. This thread has drifted into a political discussion that is off topic here at THR.