I forget, do we have a general HurricaneDitka Pit thread?

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Lest you think H-D is worth engaging, I urge you to reconsider -

In response to this post:

@jasg

An excerpt from a recent Facebook post from the father of a student at MSD High School…

If reading another long well written blog post is not your thing, here is a short quiz you can use to determine if you are a gun fetishist and a sociopath:

When someone kills a large number of children using a military weapon, do you rush to the Internet to defend the rights of the weapon?

When someone kills a large number of children using a military weapon, is your first thought that you hope there will be evidence of mental illness? (credit given if its your second thought with your first thought being please let is be a Muslim)

When someone kills a large number of children using a military weapon, do you run out to buy more military weapons?

When someone kills a large number of children using a military weapon, are you pre-armed with poorly sourced, easily debunked alternative facts in defense of your arsenal?

When someone kills a large number of children using a military weapon, do you spend time correcting the terminology people use in describing the weapon?

When someone kills a large number of children using a military weapon, do you like to bring up how the long dead founding fathers support your views? (Do you object to a standing army as strenuously as they would? Can you name any of them?)

If you answered yes to one or more of these questions, I would highly recommend you do some serious soul searching. But who are we kidding, you are not capable of that. You would have to have one to be able to search it.

Eric Ronkin (public link, no account or login required)

H-D responded with this post:

@HurricaneDitka

My responses:

No, but I do defend my right to keep and bear arms pretty much always.

No, but I do see it come up in the discussions afterwards often enough to notice some correlation.

No, but I do make purchases fairly steadily and regularly. If anything, I delay after a shooting spree (and the ensuing gun control debate) because I know that demand, and thus prices, often spike.

No, but I do certainly notice that the RKBA advocates are generally more knowledgeable and factual on the subject than the gun control advocates.

Sometimes, if their mistakes are serious enough to affect the discussion in some significant way, and very occasionally just to poke a little fun at the other side’s ignorance, if I’m in a particularly foul mood. Oftentimes I try to educate.

Not particularly, as I think there are generally better arguments to be made, but it’s probably come up a few times. And yes, I can name quite a few of them.

You acknowledged that the first paragraph was hyperbole, but the last paragraph was just shitty too. Fuck that guy, having his kid being in a school shooting couldn’t have happened to a more deserving asshole.

bolding mine