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ufcfanvt wrote:
I'd like to get permission to republish this somewhere with edits.
I think not using the words liberal and conservative would go a long way to making this article the perfect bridge for a lot of people in America.
It's very easy for people to empathize with a story like that and take hard lessons away, even changing long-held beliefs. It's another thing entirely to use that story to attack an entire belief system. When you do that, the defenses go up too quickly and with too much strength for any argument to work.
Those words are losing their meaning daily anyways...
Yeah, the biggest problem with the article is her "conversion" to "conservatism".
It's a good article, but I don't think it makes its point in the most convincing way. All the meaningless partisan language suggested to me a longtime conservative writer.
We shouldn't be trying to make liberals become conservative. Liberalism can be a good thing (some liberals still take the word "liberal" at its historical meaning, after all), even as just as an opposition force to the "conservatism" of the right-wing, which has developed many serious flaws in recent years.
What we should do is encourage liberals who plan to stay liberals to adopt appreciation for the RKBA as a tenet of their liberalism.
Then we (gun owners) win.
Edit: (Broken keyboard = forgive typos)
:quirky
