(np gun control spam)(gratuitous Pollyannaish reductio)

[Dave Monroe]

On 4/19/07, mikebailey at speakeasy.net <mikebailey at speakeasy.net> wrote:

> a pragmatic corollary is that, confronted by many people with
> their own arguments against this principle, and (most definitely)
> by widely varying implementations of the practice of violence
> (some are implemented with principle, some less so, for instance),
> I don't dispute their disagreement at all, but instead try to keep
> myself and those I love out of the line of fire, while
> personally establishing bona-fides as a non-violent entity.
> Among friends, I dare to recommend this course of action as satisfying.

As y'all can imagine, I'm not always neceessarily in full concord with
even those in my immediate prsence, much less in my mediated
telepresensce.  Ironically, the most violent arguments I've been in
have tended to be about gun control (though it wasn't me getting even
rhetorically violent).  With otherwise liberal, laid-back friends.
A.greed ...