# Bricker: any documentation at all = "intense documentation" so don't ask me for any

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**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [March 22, 2013, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bricker-any-documentation-at-all-intense-documentation-so-dont-ask-me-for-any/653688 "2013-03-22T22:09:28Z")\
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**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\
**Post date:** [March 26, 2013, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bricker-any-documentation-at-all-intense-documentation-so-dont-ask-me-for-any/653688/132 "2013-03-26T20:17:26Z")

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> [@Bricker](#):
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> So you missed this post, but it’s my fault.
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> Gotcha.

OK, two last things. First of all, very often there are multiple conversations going on in the same thread. I don’t always read everyone’s replies to everyone else. I’m sure that’s a common practice.

But yeah, it is your fault for not making it clear that you specifically were repudiating what you said in the OP. Even having read it, that’s not clear.

Also, I’m clearly not the only one who missed that brief reference. **John Mace** , **Hentor** , **'luc** , we all missed it, based on their subsequent posts.

Doesn’t say much for your communication skills, counselor.

Finally, you almost immediately reversed course. In post 41 of the original thread:

> [@Reid Admits No Support For "Assault Weapons" Ban](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reid-admits-no-support-for-assault-weapons-ban/653402/41):
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> in my view, these events prove that the message was never accurate.
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> In other words, even a mass murder this horrible is only one event, and not a proper basis for setting policy. Anecdotes are not data – one horrible murder using an AR-15 does not justify banning AR-15s in the absence of more generalized data indicating the harm they cause. So what this set of events suggest is that Democrats were always predisposed to enact various bans, and stymied only by the lack of more general public support.

There you go: “never accurate.” Not even “accurate at the time, but not later” but “never accurate” because the Dems didn’t really give up on gun control, they were just lying in wait.

So you were talking out of both sides of you mouth, saying contradictory things, oh, 6 hours and 12 minutes apart.

Clearly you didn’t mean what you said to Max, because you changed your tune, not 6-7 **years** later, like the Dems you accuse of duplicity, but 6-7 **hours** later.

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> The battle I kept fighting was not the one you were fighting – which, again, was made obvious because I specifically said you agreed with me – didn’t you wonder why I was saying that??

Because you only started saying it at post 65 of this thread, at which point I didn’t wonder. I figured it was just an outright lie piled on top of the usual duplicity.

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