Zen21Tao
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For almost a year I have been one of the regular pro-rights posters on the Brady Campaign blog. Since they started the blog we have been able to disprove their lies, point their dishonesty and dodge their numerous ad hominem attacks. It appears that we finally won a victory over them, driving the final nail into their blog comments section.
This came following a short series of 3 threads where they questioned the pro-rights side's ability to engage in "reasoned discourse." In these 3 threads, Paul Helmke accused us of not being able to engage in "reasoned discourse" based only on 2 comments they captured in a moderation queue (captured posts that never made actually it to the blog comments section) and an office fax they received.
It is also worth noting that 2 of the 3 people that wrote these posts/fax haven't posted any other comments on the blog, so they could hardly represent actually posters on the blog. Ironically though, the BC over looked hundreds of posts freely available by repeat posters (which can be see in the archives) where we responded to the very few anti-gun posters with cited facts and logic. They also completely ignored the numerous ad hominem attacks made by anti-gun poster Kelli (such as calling me a creep and questioning my academic honesty) in order to dodge valid requests for proof of statements she had made.
Once again, we see all this as an admission of their defeat (much like a whiny little fat kid that "takes his ball and goes home" when things aren't going his way).
Sources:
"Brady Blog updates" (a.k.a., "We've been defeated") thread
http://www.bradycampaign.org/blog/2007/07/27/brady-blog-updates/
"Reasoned Discourse ? - Part III" thread
http://www.bradycampaign.org/blog/2007/07/24/reasoned-discourse-–-part-iii/
"Reasoned Discourse ? - Part II" thread
http://www.bradycampaign.org/blog/2007/06/29/reasoned-discourse-–-part-ii/
"Reasoned Discourse ? - Part I" thread
http://www.bradycampaign.org/blog/2007/06/25/reasoned-discourse-–-part-i/
This came following a short series of 3 threads where they questioned the pro-rights side's ability to engage in "reasoned discourse." In these 3 threads, Paul Helmke accused us of not being able to engage in "reasoned discourse" based only on 2 comments they captured in a moderation queue (captured posts that never made actually it to the blog comments section) and an office fax they received.
It is also worth noting that 2 of the 3 people that wrote these posts/fax haven't posted any other comments on the blog, so they could hardly represent actually posters on the blog. Ironically though, the BC over looked hundreds of posts freely available by repeat posters (which can be see in the archives) where we responded to the very few anti-gun posters with cited facts and logic. They also completely ignored the numerous ad hominem attacks made by anti-gun poster Kelli (such as calling me a creep and questioning my academic honesty) in order to dodge valid requests for proof of statements she had made.
Once again, we see all this as an admission of their defeat (much like a whiny little fat kid that "takes his ball and goes home" when things aren't going his way).
Sources:
"Brady Blog updates" (a.k.a., "We've been defeated") thread
http://www.bradycampaign.org/blog/2007/07/27/brady-blog-updates/
"Reasoned Discourse ? - Part III" thread
http://www.bradycampaign.org/blog/2007/07/24/reasoned-discourse-–-part-iii/
"Reasoned Discourse ? - Part II" thread
http://www.bradycampaign.org/blog/2007/06/29/reasoned-discourse-–-part-ii/
"Reasoned Discourse ? - Part I" thread
http://www.bradycampaign.org/blog/2007/06/25/reasoned-discourse-–-part-i/