# So what will it take for there to be serious gun control debate?

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**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [August 4, 2019, 9:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-will-it-take-for-there-to-be-serious-gun-control-debate/838166 "2019-08-04T09:51:07Z")\
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**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\
**Post date:** [August 7, 2019, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-will-it-take-for-there-to-be-serious-gun-control-debate/838166/427 "2019-08-07T14:54:40Z")

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> [@XT](#):
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> No, it isn’t. Why even bring this up? You disagree, you know I disagree, we’ve had this discussion before…like, oh, 100 times perhaps. Your mind is made up and you aren’t going to change it. You aren’t going to change my mind, I know you are wrong. There is no point. Yet you felt the need to beat this dead horse yet again because…?

If you’re telling us you refuse to consider the possible validity of other viewpoints, including one that prevailed for most of our history until recently when a 1-vote partisan vote supported their party politically, that says all it needs to, doesn’t it? Meanwhile, this is still a Debates forum, not a “Nuh-uh!” forum.

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