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In reply to the discussion: How the NRA Rewrote the 2nd Amendment -- The Founders never intended to create unregulated guns [View all]friendly_iconoclast
(15,333 posts)42. Feh. Eric Hoffer explained people like you years ago:
        
          'True believers' of all sorts are more alike than different-not that they'll ever admit it...
https://www.democraticunderground.com/117235299#post26
It's hardly a new or original observation- it is the underlying thesis of Eric Hoffer's The True Believer: Thoughts On The Nature Of Mass Movements
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_True_Believer
          
          
          
        
        https://www.democraticunderground.com/117235299#post26
It's hardly a new or original observation- it is the underlying thesis of Eric Hoffer's The True Believer: Thoughts On The Nature Of Mass Movements
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_True_Believer
...The book analyzes and attempts to explain the motives of the various types of personalities that give rise to mass movements; why and how mass movements start, progress and end; and the similarities between them, whether religious, political, radical or reactionary. As examples, the book often refers to Communism, Fascism, National Socialism, Christianity, Protestantism, and Islam. Hoffer believes that mass movements are interchangeable, that adherents will often flip from one movement to another, and that the motivations for mass movements are interchangeable; that religious, nationalist and social movements, whether radical or reactionary, tend to attract the same type of followers, behave in the same way and use the same tactics, even when their stated goals or values differed.
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                        How the NRA Rewrote the 2nd Amendment -- The Founders never intended to create unregulated guns [View all]
							sharedvalues
							May 2019
							OP
                        
        
        The fact that Scalia redacted 1/2 of the 2nd Amendment to support his "originalist" view
        guillaumeb
        May 2019
        #3
      
        
        True, but he did need to dismiss 1/2 of the Amendment to support his claimed originalist argument.
        guillaumeb
        Jun 2019
        #16
      
        
        President Obama, HRC and Bernie Sanders have all said the 2A protects an individual right
        hack89
        Jun 2019
        #17
      
        
        "(Y)ou will not smear them or Waldman." My my, aren't *we* full of ourselves!
        friendly_iconoclast
        Jun 2019
        #6
      
        
        Ahem. You don't actually *get* to shape others' replies to you. Also...
        friendly_iconoclast
        Jun 2019
        #27
      
        
        "Pastor Robert Jeffress Says Disney Supports 'Murdering Children'...
        friendly_iconoclast
        Jun 2019
        #36
      
        
        "If the gun restrictionists quit aping the fetus fetishists, the meme will go away."
        friendly_iconoclast
        Jun 2019
        #43
      
        
        Lots of obvious propaganda techniques, little to no actual evidence
        friendly_iconoclast
        Jun 2019
        #28
      
        
        Blatant propaganda and cheap appeals to pity don't move me, and never have
        friendly_iconoclast
        Jun 2019
        #33
      
        
        Sounds like the gestation slavers claiming that Roe v Wade ought to be overturned
        friendly_iconoclast
        Jun 2019
        #48
      
        
        I'm neither impressed nor intimidated by mere bluster and chronic logorrhea
        friendly_iconoclast
        Jun 2019
        #53
      
        
        You are laser focused on Miller and ignoring my other arguments in this thread.
        MarvinGardens
        Jun 2019
        #77
      
        
        It seems Con Law lectures at Internet Search Engine University focus on Miller...
        friendly_iconoclast
        Jun 2019
        #78
      
        
        Well, when you only have one decision, rendered because the defendant died, and the defense didn't
        AtheistCrusader
        Jun 2019
        #81
      
        
        Once again, you've demonstrated that pious fraud is part and parcel of gun control advocacy
        friendly_iconoclast
        Jun 2019
        #49
      
        
        "(Miller) did not say that militia service is required for gun ownership." True...
        friendly_iconoclast
        Jun 2019
        #56
      
        
        You weren't to notice those inconvenient details amidst all the bluster and handwaving
        friendly_iconoclast
        Jun 2019
        #60
      
        
        re: "Republicans love guns because gun identity politics gets people...
        discntnt_irny_srcsm
        Jun 2019
        #25
      
        
        Miller is no more valid today than Minersville School District v. Gobitis
        friendly_iconoclast
        Jun 2019
        #50
      
        
        And if it was, we'd all have the right to own an Army-issue (and fully automatic) M4...
        friendly_iconoclast
        Jun 2019
        #59
      
        
        "a unorganized militia is NOT well regulated. It could not possibly be what madison intended"
        friendly_iconoclast
        Jun 2019
        #61
      
        
        Evangelists of all stripes want believers, not thinkers. Thinkers tend to ask pesky questions...
        friendly_iconoclast
        Jun 2019
        #87