Hmm, never been to a place where calling someone a liar is forbidden. Color me surprised, but ok, my fault. Seriously though, who reads the TOS of any website before posting? I’ll admit laziness on my part, but I’m not buying a house here, I’m posting on a message board
And here is where your critique of me is flawed. Do you want to quote me on my first post in this topic? I asked a question, with a simple 2 sentence elaboration. Should I have launched into a nuanced, thousand word essay on every aspect of gun control? I gave a simple response to the topic about a hundred posts in, that’s it. I wasn’t looking to articulate my entire stance on guns and for you or anyone else to take that as anything but a beginning is an intellectually dishonest debate tactic.
Then people questioned that premise. Should I have nitpicked them and assumed that those replies were their ONLY objection with gun control? Your reply included "Assault weapons also have no functional definition and the term is a meaningless scare phrase. " Shall I assume that is your ONLY objection to the AWB? You didn’t mention anything about incompentent writers of the bill at all, yet you use it as a foundation for your later objections! And you’re criticizing me for that? Your entire post mentions nothing of the DoJ, additional research, or anything else except what I posted.
Just as you are attributing my supposed moving of the goalposts, you have done exactly that. I was not ignorant enough to assume that your reply was your only position, kindly do not assume the same with mine. And if that was insulting, then pre-emptive apologies. However your debate tactic of falsely attributing a single, 3 sentence post as my entire argument is nothing short of extreme strawman and a sad waste of what could have been a decent debate, beginning with insults you decided to hurl first. Again, apologies if pointing that out is against forum rules