Obama to Seek New Assault Weapons Ban

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? :stuck_out_tongue: 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