since9
Campaign Veteran
I could teach a seminar on this. In fact, I could probably develop an entire collegiate course on "Logical Discourse on the Internet."
Why is this in Hot Topics? Simple: It's what I and most of the most common posters here do each and every day both here and elsewhere for the preservation of our Constitutional right to keep and bear arms.
Here's a recent transcription involving a **** who who said, "churches should be banned from doing this. they just take them down and sign up for a welfare check, food stamps, medical care. christians gave us obummer and now giving us more enemies."
Here's my response. Please note the plentiful mix of logical and emotional appeal, while ending solidly on logic:
Note to all Friends: This is the kind of "conservative" we do NOT need in our ranks. Quite frankly, he sounds like a liberal or Demoncrappic plant fumblingly intended to stir the pot with mud (nonsense), i.e. traitor to the cause of restoring our nation to it's rightful Constitutional foundation.
Dear X: Christians did NOT "give us obummer."
I'm a born-again Christian, conservative, and proud of it. If you think I had ANY affinity for "obummer," I respectfully request you peruse my Facebook wall until you conclude otherwise. Most (4/5 i.e. 80%) of the Christians I know voted for the other guy. My anecdotal observation, however, in no way reflects the Christian population at large, as belief in Jesus Christ as one's Lord and Savior isn't the only criteria I use in selecting friends. In fact, while it's preferred, it's not paramount. I have more than a handful of good friends who are not Christians, and to be perfectly honest, one's belief in God or faith in Jesus Christ is largely independent of their conservative vs liberal beliefs, at least on a world-wide basis. Here in America, however, there is a strong correlation, one which counters the hard-won lessons we learned throughout the 19th and 20th Centuries, and it's strongly correlated with one's in-depth understanding of both the nature of humanity as well as our history.
What's required to either substantiate or disprove your claim is readily available, if you know where to look for it, and I'm not talking about the tabloids. Rather, I'm talking about highly-qualified statistical research into voting behavior. If you can find me an objective study along these lines, I'll say, "You are correct." If you bring me a river of ****, I'll throw it back in your face while citing the stats that prove you're either an idiot, or at the very least, you haven't a clue as to what the hell you're talking about.
In the meantime, comments like "christians gave us obummer" merely reflect a level of stupidity that fall well below the criteria I set long ago as to who I might count as a friend, and if you think I'm talking about either "intelligence" or "Christian affiliation," then you fail on both counts.
If you don't like my post and/or approach, then prove me wrong, and get it right.
So... "Why is this a 'Hot Topic' in either the Open Carry or our more superlative category of our right to keep and bear arms? Simple: Depending on your audience, sometimes logic works. Other times, however, it does not, and emotional appeal definitely has it's place. The best approaches to win over the masses, however, delivers both barrels, such that the recipients have no recourse of thought left. After all, our goal isn't to ridicule them. They're still voters and can vote against the Constitution, "the supreme Law of the Land," weigh down our system with massive idealism, and generally ruin our day, if not our entire country.
No. Our goal is to help them understand the hard-won lessons of history, that human nature really hasn't changed since the dawn of civilization, and help bring them into the time-worn and proven understanding that some elements of humanity will never submit to reason, unless it's their "reason," regardless of how much damage, destruction, and death they visit on others, that the more civilized members of human society abhor such mayhem, and are working together to eradicate it NOT under "one UN rule," but under the millennial-proven mechanism of cooperative sovereign states.
When exercised, this approach has resulted in the LEAST loss of life on our planet.
When exercised, the Islamic approach has resulted in the GREATEST loss of life on our planet.
It doesn't take a rocket scientist, folks, to figure out...
Why is this in Hot Topics? Simple: It's what I and most of the most common posters here do each and every day both here and elsewhere for the preservation of our Constitutional right to keep and bear arms.
Here's a recent transcription involving a **** who who said, "churches should be banned from doing this. they just take them down and sign up for a welfare check, food stamps, medical care. christians gave us obummer and now giving us more enemies."
Here's my response. Please note the plentiful mix of logical and emotional appeal, while ending solidly on logic:
Note to all Friends: This is the kind of "conservative" we do NOT need in our ranks. Quite frankly, he sounds like a liberal or Demoncrappic plant fumblingly intended to stir the pot with mud (nonsense), i.e. traitor to the cause of restoring our nation to it's rightful Constitutional foundation.
Dear X: Christians did NOT "give us obummer."
I'm a born-again Christian, conservative, and proud of it. If you think I had ANY affinity for "obummer," I respectfully request you peruse my Facebook wall until you conclude otherwise. Most (4/5 i.e. 80%) of the Christians I know voted for the other guy. My anecdotal observation, however, in no way reflects the Christian population at large, as belief in Jesus Christ as one's Lord and Savior isn't the only criteria I use in selecting friends. In fact, while it's preferred, it's not paramount. I have more than a handful of good friends who are not Christians, and to be perfectly honest, one's belief in God or faith in Jesus Christ is largely independent of their conservative vs liberal beliefs, at least on a world-wide basis. Here in America, however, there is a strong correlation, one which counters the hard-won lessons we learned throughout the 19th and 20th Centuries, and it's strongly correlated with one's in-depth understanding of both the nature of humanity as well as our history.
What's required to either substantiate or disprove your claim is readily available, if you know where to look for it, and I'm not talking about the tabloids. Rather, I'm talking about highly-qualified statistical research into voting behavior. If you can find me an objective study along these lines, I'll say, "You are correct." If you bring me a river of ****, I'll throw it back in your face while citing the stats that prove you're either an idiot, or at the very least, you haven't a clue as to what the hell you're talking about.
In the meantime, comments like "christians gave us obummer" merely reflect a level of stupidity that fall well below the criteria I set long ago as to who I might count as a friend, and if you think I'm talking about either "intelligence" or "Christian affiliation," then you fail on both counts.
If you don't like my post and/or approach, then prove me wrong, and get it right.
So... "Why is this a 'Hot Topic' in either the Open Carry or our more superlative category of our right to keep and bear arms? Simple: Depending on your audience, sometimes logic works. Other times, however, it does not, and emotional appeal definitely has it's place. The best approaches to win over the masses, however, delivers both barrels, such that the recipients have no recourse of thought left. After all, our goal isn't to ridicule them. They're still voters and can vote against the Constitution, "the supreme Law of the Land," weigh down our system with massive idealism, and generally ruin our day, if not our entire country.
No. Our goal is to help them understand the hard-won lessons of history, that human nature really hasn't changed since the dawn of civilization, and help bring them into the time-worn and proven understanding that some elements of humanity will never submit to reason, unless it's their "reason," regardless of how much damage, destruction, and death they visit on others, that the more civilized members of human society abhor such mayhem, and are working together to eradicate it NOT under "one UN rule," but under the millennial-proven mechanism of cooperative sovereign states.
When exercised, this approach has resulted in the LEAST loss of life on our planet.
When exercised, the Islamic approach has resulted in the GREATEST loss of life on our planet.
It doesn't take a rocket scientist, folks, to figure out...