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LaUser wrote:

bdickens wrote:Hmm...

A bunch of able-bodied adults loitering on the streets during the middle of the day instead of working....

Racial epithets....

Hatred and bile....

Attempting to intimidate those with differing viewpoints....

Yeah, I'd say that's a Democrat neighborhood all right!

Sounds like a Republican neighborhood to me.
The Republican party has been taken over by the Four Horseman of Calumny - fear, ignorance, bigotry, and smear.

Sounds like an unamerican neighborhood, I dont give a hoot what party they claim to support, they are UNAMERICAN.

Some of the responses in this thread are embarassing and childish.

You spit on Obama cars? You have political "discussions" with people in traffic?
"And that's why you carry 24x7" so you can "defend" yourself from people that disagree with you?

This is exactly the kind of garbage I left California to get away from. It's nice to be reminded that it exists here, too.

How do you change minds? You change minds by emulating Jesus, Buddha, Ghandi, and Martin Luther King, NOT by emulating an idiot teenager.

As someone that's educated quite a few liberal anti gunners, I'll tell you exactly how, in a nutshell.

1) Listen to them
2) understand what they are concerned about
3) patiently explain that their concerns are valid, and why you don't agree with them
4) Don't act like a loud ignorant fool.

That's how I saw the light, that's how the 40 or so people I've explained pro-gun ness to saw the light, and how more will continue to see the light.


I need a shower.

The full quote, for anyone that cares:

To avoid being mistaken for a sellout,I chose my friends carefully.The more politically active black students.The foreign students.The Chicanos.The Marxist Professors and the structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets.We smoked cigarettes and wore leather jackets.At night,in the dorms,we discussed neocolonialism,Franz Fanon,Eurocentrism,and patriarchy.When we ground out our cigarettes in the hallway carpet or set our stereos so loud that the walls began to shake,we were resisting bourgeois society's stifling constraints.We weren't indifferent or careless or insecure.We were alienated.

When I read the book, I recall it talking about how he was rebelling. I'll see if I can find it and report back.

People get way too worked up over politics, and forget their civility. Thanks for the reminder.

Although I'd disagree on much political issues with these folks outside of guns, just about everyone here is awesome. I've met a few folks already (longtooth, carlson1, etc) and hope to make it to a Chlforum day in Friendswood someday.

Stick around, man. Hearing the ideas from people that think differently than you can only enrich you.

TexasComputerDude wrote:This makes me want to grab my camera and record these people in the act. I could make some awesome youtube videos of it.

anybody care to hold the camera?

just follow my bumper sticker adorned Suzuki Samurai into the city.

I'd love to do this, for EITHER side.

In fact, I'm considering getting an Obama and a McCain sticker, and putting one on either side of the car.
That way I can offend EVERYBODY.

longhorn_92 wrote:Why are liberals, who love to tout themselves as being so tolerant and open to supposedly any idea or lifestyle, so intolerant to the ideas and lifestyle of those who think and believe differently than they do?

Works both ways, and you know it.

As a former Californian, I know all too well that some folks are tolerant as long as you think like them. MUCH happier since I moved.

I seriously want a "None of the above / they are both the same" yard sign...