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**Runge 667**

donovan the copycat hater.

"PJ O'D" a écrit dans le message de groupe de
discussion :
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Hate is a liberal value

"A 20-year-old lunatic stole some guns and killed people. Who’s to
blame? According to a lot of our supposedly rational and tolerant
opinion leaders, it’s . . . the NRA, a civil-rights organization whose
only crime was to oppose laws banning guns. (Ironically, it wasn’t
even successful in Connecticut, which has some of the strictest gun
laws in the nation.)

The hatred was intense. One Rhode Island professor issued a call —
later deleted — for NRA head Wayne LaPierre’s “head on a stick.”
People like author Joyce Carol Oates and actress Marg Helgenberger
wished for NRA members to be shot. So did Texas Democratic Party
official John Cobarruvias, who also called the NRA a “terrorist
organization,” and Texas Republican congressman Louis Gohmert a
“terror baby.”

Nor were reporters, who are supposed to be neutral, much better. As
The Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg commented, “Reporters on my Twitter
feed seem to hate the NRA more than anything else, ever. ”

Calling people murderers and wishing them to be shot sits oddly with
claims to be against violence. The NRA — like the ACLU, the National
Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers or Planned Parenthood — exists
to advocate policies its members want. It’s free speech. The group-
hate directed at the NRA is ugly and says ugly things about those
consumed by it.....".

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