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Originally Posted by Danzig
and why does this once again have to become a partisan debate? and why reply TO ME about conservatives, i'm not one!
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That's true, Danzig; you do tend to be pretty spread out over the political spectrum, but an opposition to gun restrictions tends to be associated with a conservative bent.
I think my frustration is that I agree with you, education and attacking the root causes of poverty would do a great deal towards combating gun violence, regardless of restrictions on guns. Where I get angry, and NOT at you personally; I feel bad you took it as a personal attack (though please tell me where I resorted to "name calling?" Unless you think being called "conservative" is being called a bad name? Tee hee) is that I feel the (generally) conservative attitude towards no restrictions on firearms carries no corresponding attempt to reduce gun violence- arm the rich so they can shoot the poor, so to speak, rather than trying to combat sources that lead to violence in the first place.
And I think the gun issue is very different in rural areas than it is in urban (as someone else said) and that it's hard to find a common ground because the circumstances are soooooo different.