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<blockquote data-quote="LarryBird" data-source="post: 4099456" data-attributes="member: 76548"><p>I find it extremely odd that I'm painted as some kind of extremist because I want our country to take care of it's citizens, and hold true to the ideals that made us great, like being a nation of immigrants and a melting pot etc.</p><p></p><p>Being for gun control isn't wrong either, it's logical. We have a problem with gun violence, and we need to change the level of access to weapons of war - handguns and assault rifles aren't meant for sport, they were made to kill. Period. Nobody wants to take away your bolt action rifle. They want to regulate semi-automatic killing machines, and make it harder for mentally ill people to commit mass shootings. The argument that we need to have guns to protect against govt tyranny seems disingenuous, if not straight out laughable. The argument that we need all these guns because we need good guys with weapons to protect against bad guys with weapons seems a bit flawed as well, I thought that's why we paid all these policemen and had a national guard. The last thing we need, in my opinion is a bunch of untrained yahoos firing off potshots in a crowd, in the name of protection against the 'bad guys'. That doesn't make me feel safer, it makes me feel more likely to get hit by a stray bullet.</p><p></p><p>The fact that I want a clear separation of religion and state isn't weird, it's how it was supposed to be. Being pro-choice isn't wrong, and it's not an endorsement of abortion. It is respecting a woman's choice to make an informed decision about her own body and whether or not they want to bring a child into the world that they might not be equipped to provide and care for - if conservatives, who claim to be anti-welfare, put their religion aside, you would think this would be something they would be firmly behind. </p><p></p><p>I'm basically for common sense. I'm a realist. Clinging to the past just for tradition's sake, doesn't seem like a very wise position to take. Change is constant, and most people don't necessarily love it, myself included. But I can recognize that many of our laws and belief systems need to change, some drastically, and others just need a little tweak. But remaining stagnant, as the rest of the world around us changes, is not an option - it's the death knell of empires past their prime.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="LarryBird, post: 4099456, member: 76548"] I find it extremely odd that I'm painted as some kind of extremist because I want our country to take care of it's citizens, and hold true to the ideals that made us great, like being a nation of immigrants and a melting pot etc. Being for gun control isn't wrong either, it's logical. We have a problem with gun violence, and we need to change the level of access to weapons of war - handguns and assault rifles aren't meant for sport, they were made to kill. Period. Nobody wants to take away your bolt action rifle. They want to regulate semi-automatic killing machines, and make it harder for mentally ill people to commit mass shootings. The argument that we need to have guns to protect against govt tyranny seems disingenuous, if not straight out laughable. The argument that we need all these guns because we need good guys with weapons to protect against bad guys with weapons seems a bit flawed as well, I thought that's why we paid all these policemen and had a national guard. The last thing we need, in my opinion is a bunch of untrained yahoos firing off potshots in a crowd, in the name of protection against the 'bad guys'. That doesn't make me feel safer, it makes me feel more likely to get hit by a stray bullet. The fact that I want a clear separation of religion and state isn't weird, it's how it was supposed to be. Being pro-choice isn't wrong, and it's not an endorsement of abortion. It is respecting a woman's choice to make an informed decision about her own body and whether or not they want to bring a child into the world that they might not be equipped to provide and care for - if conservatives, who claim to be anti-welfare, put their religion aside, you would think this would be something they would be firmly behind. I'm basically for common sense. I'm a realist. Clinging to the past just for tradition's sake, doesn't seem like a very wise position to take. Change is constant, and most people don't necessarily love it, myself included. But I can recognize that many of our laws and belief systems need to change, some drastically, and others just need a little tweak. But remaining stagnant, as the rest of the world around us changes, is not an option - it's the death knell of empires past their prime. [/QUOTE]
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