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I respect and agree with almost everything you said. I would say everything, but I’m personally a fan of fireworks 🙂
I don’t want you to think I’ve never met moderate liberals like you before; I have many in my own family. But, the extreme, new-age liberals have become very prevalent in the press and among young people. The people like Joe Lieberman and Jim Webb are being phased out, unfortunately, and replaced with crazier, loonier liberals. This is just my perspective, of course.
One other thing, I am glad to see most people around here are sensible about gun-control, but I think people could be even more hardliner. Certain weapons should get a wholesale ban given that mass killings is their only purpose. I personally don’t agree that “protecting hunting” is a plus for guns rights either. I would point out that when it comes to hunting as it pertains to gun control, the pro-gun posters here conveniently forget about the halachah.