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Originally Posted by shinerbock
Fears often don't come true in such matters, but I don't think that makes them illegitimate.
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For what we're discussing, fears that have no or minimal foundation and have a low likelihood of coming to reality are illegitimate and irrational.
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Originally Posted by shinerbock
Perhaps your named exception aside, I think the discourse has been pretty rational and well-mannered.
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I don't care about the well-mannered part. Rational, perhaps, but that's because what can irrationally and/or emotionally be said about guns has been said in other threads.