geekWithA.45
Moderator Emeritus
With emotional pablum:
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-op-price13aug13,0,4206961.story?coll=la-opinion-rightrail
Note how skillfully she maneuvers so as to preserve and enhance her status as victim.
That being said, one must also soberly note that whatever misbehavior our community engages in can indeed come to haunt us.
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-op-price13aug13,0,4206961.story?coll=la-opinion-rightrail
Targeted by Gun Nuts
After she wrote a gun-control op-ed, the writer got threats and worse: a blogosphere hit job on her murdered brother.
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But when these gun-obsessed guys in their underwear talk to like-minded guys, they build a community that reinforces a level of intolerance that is off the charts. After all, the Internet doesn't create community. People create community — and how the Internet is used depends on the people who use it.
I'd spent a week in the company of people with closed minds and cold hearts. And what saddens me most is that vengeful intolerance is all too common and leads people every day to reach for a handgun to kill people.
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I can cite statistics, and I can tell you why the right to carry a 9-millimeter semiautomatic handgun with a 10-shot clip is not guaranteed by the 2nd Amendment. But the paranoia and bone-chilling hatred that spew from such sites as packing.org and freerepublic.com make for an equally — and unusually — effective argument for a ban on handguns.
Note how skillfully she maneuvers so as to preserve and enhance her status as victim.
That being said, one must also soberly note that whatever misbehavior our community engages in can indeed come to haunt us.