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Originally Posted by Envitro
I'm all for a balanced discussion, it just seems that not many of you fine folks prefer to talk that way either. I'm about as progressive as you can get on pretty much all issues, but happens to know more than most about the firearms industry. And yeah, I'll stand up for my sport any time of day, and will speak with actual facts and statistics against people who don't know that much, yet choose to "feel" their way through complex issues and topics.
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You have to understand that this is why these conversations are kind of pointless, right?
Having been on the board a while, I can tell you your views (or at least the ones shared here) don’t come close to being “as progressive as you can get” and you (more than once) have been asked why you were using some poorly sourced and wrong/misleading “facts” and statistics.
Adding the weird denial of gun culture in the US, which pretty much anyone who has spent time down there can tell you otherwise (even in blue states, in my experience), and it’s basically impossible to have a balanced, honest conversation. It might be time to actually evaluate your biases, a lot of it coming from it being your job and your sport, and actually listen to more moderate gun owners while paying attention to the world around you.
The reason people write off a lot of gun owners is because the loudest seem completely detached from anything beyond their own wants.