In my post about the idiotic over-reaction to a New Jersey 10-year-old posing with his new squirrel rifle , Dana Garrett left me this response: One waits, apparently in vain, for you to post the annual rates of children who either shoot themselves or someone else with a gun. But then you Libertarians are notoriously ambivalent to and silent about data and facts and would rather talk abstract principles and fear monger (like the government will confiscate your guns). It doesn't require any degree of subtlety to see why you are data and fact adverse. The facts indicate we have a crisis with gun violence and accidents in the USA, and Libertarians offer nothing credible to address it. Lives, even the lives of children, get sacrificed to the fetishism of liberty. That's intellectual cowardice. OK, Dana, let's talk facts. According to the Children's Defense Fund , which is itself only querying the CDCP data base, fewer than 10 children/teens were killed per year in Delaw
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A question about "evil" to a presidential candidate is just ridiculous. I don't know why we stand for it.
Because we're morons. :-(
Dumb question, good article. I wonder if I have made the No-Fly list because I've read it.
The American media seems to be under some illusion we are a theocracy. On Fox News, for instance, they had a so-called "expert" from the infamous IRD (Institute for Religion and Democracy) commenting on the forum. If you know ANYTHING about the IRD, you know they are trying to drag mainstream protestantism to the hard right due to their liberal social leanings. They have also interfered in Latin American politics, the first co-founder having worked with Ollie North.
Moreover, it was lost on the media that they should have been analyzing the perspective of Warren's "evil" question, not the answers. In the context--a fundamentalist evangelical church pastor--evil has an entirely different meaning than when used as in "axis of evil", for instance.
It was a sad, sad day for US politics.