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    1 year ago

    Burchett said that “we”, as is the legislative branch, are not going to fix it. He didn’t say he didn’t want it fixed.

    Now, I disagree with him as I suspect you do too. But that’s no excuse to warp someone’s argument into something it’s not.

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        1 year ago

        No, it’s not the same as saying they don’t want it fixed. I think that he is woefully wrong, even negligently wrong. But I don’t need to misconstrue his stance or argument to think that.

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            1 year ago

            You’re still misrepresenting their stance. They don’t believe there’s a “gun problem”. That doesn’t mean they want children to die.

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                No, I’m not trolling, and the fact that you think that I am is part of the problem. This will be my last message to you. Whether you like it or not, they do not agree with you on how to stop children from being killed by gun violence. Just because they don’t agree with you or me on how to do it, doesn’t mean they don’t want to do it. This was the entire point that started this convo: they do not agree on the how.

                No one wants these massacres, it’s just that no one can agree on the how to stop them. That’s what the original premise was.

                To be able to reach a consensus with other people, it’s important to be able to understand their stance and beliefs. Misrepresenting them does nothing but drive a deeper wedge between the two sides.