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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]Yes you are very rational. You just called Ron Paul a loony. I bet you believe that the Occupy protestors an their Guy Fawkes masks are so representative of America. So is Ralph Nader and alien looking Kucinich. After all only republicans are crazy. The fact that DC is a much less safer place than say Houston or Dallas where conceal carry is common means nothing to you. I bet you also believe DCa gun ban worked. You fashion yourself as a tolerant liberal but you know you're really an intolerant, self-absorbed, entitled jerk. Your so called big tent is only open to people that think like you. [/quote]

That's a somewhat startling interpretation of my post.  First, you started off talking about defending your home, and are now discussing concealed carry, which are not the same things at all.  Second, yes, I did say Ron Paul is a loon.  This is a fairly non-controversial statement.  Are you familiar with his platform?  End the Fed, the Gold Standard . . . recipes for economic collapse.  That's not even mentioning the newsletters . . .

For what it's worth, while I'm more sympathetic to OWS, Nader, Kucinich, I do recognize that they're just as loony, on the other side of the spectrum, as Paul, his supporters, and the Tea Party.  You apparently don't have the same capacity for mature reflection.

Finally, I may in fact be, as you so kindly put it, an intolerant, self-absorbed, entitled jerk - I don't think so, but who knows?  However, you arrived at that conclusion based on the fact that I believe Ron Paul is a loon (which puts me in the same boat as most of the country, including most Republicans), and that I support restrictions on people carrying concealed weapons.  Is that really the product of a rational thought process?  Everyone who disagrees with you is an entitled jerk?  [/quote]

Just because you forgot to mention it, I'll just add that when Dennis Kucinich is in a three-way tie for the Dem presidential nomination, then we'll talk.  This is a pretty common rhetorical trick that folks on the right make:  One of the two frontrunners for the GOP nomination came out and explicitly said we need welfare reform to stop giving "black people" money?  What about Al Sharpton?  Or that pastor from the church that Obama went to for a while?

It's hilarious:  they can't understand the difference between the leaders of a political party and some random dude who's famous for saying controversial things.  Either that or they don't want to understand.[/quote]

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