-=> Quoting Earnest Padgette to Guy Putnam <=-
 EP> What I asked was pretty simple. If I believed half the blather
 EP> you spout (and claim to believe), I'd be in the streets. You
 EP> say you believe all this stuff. You say you're hard, and you
 EP> won't compromise. 
I told you that exercising our political power by voting is the civilized
method by we exert our underlying physical force.  I have no desire to
exert physical force when I can still participate in our rapidly
diminishing civilized processes.
 EP> You attack the rest of us as being dupes . . .
I called someone a dupe?
 EP> . . . and AGers. 
Well, what do you call someone voting for Dole, who authored the Brady Bill
with Metzenbaum?  Not what "name" do you call them, but how do you identify
their political inclination?
 EP> And yet your main claim to fame is that you vote. 
No, I vote only pro-gun . . . there is a difference between that & just
voting.
 EP> As I thought, B.S. and bluster. EP
Oh?!
 
 GP>I answered that I vote only pro-gun.That's how I back up what I believe
 GP>in.  I exercise my political power by voting pro-gun.
 EP> Being pro-gun involves more than just voting and beating on a
 EP> keyboard. 
Yes, it does.  Being pro-gun involves voting only for pro-gun candidates. 
You seem to confuse this with voting for an anti-gunner.  What's important
about voting is who you vote for . . . .
 EP> It certainly doesn't involve insulting everyone who
 EP> doesn't agree with your narrow viewpoint. 
My viewpoint is the broad, realistic viewpoint.  I haven't been insulting
anyone, just pointing out that if they vote for an anti-gun candidate,
their political effect is anti-gun.  If you don't like the facts, remember
that it is you Dole voters who are insulting yourselves as well as the more
well balanced remainder of us.
 EP> It means standing up 
 EP> and working to make things happen. That's what I do . . .
Like what?
A repeal of NFA '34, repeal of GCA '68, repeal of the 1986 machinegun manuf
ban, repeal of the Brady Bill or the "Crime" Bill?!?  Or, do you make
things happen like the Friends of NRA fund raisers, etc?
 EP> been doing (judging strictly from my interpretation of your
 EP> writing style and the content of your thought process) since
 EP> before you were born. 
Well, I wouldn't know about that.  I'm 45 . . . are you an old-timer?
 EP> There's a little more to this fight than
 EP> words, something to which you might give some consideration. 
There sure is.  Unless we actually get to the polls & vote for a real pro-
gun candidate, _all_ else is in vain.
 EP> I repeat my assertion: You're all B.S. and bluster. You either
 EP> don't believe your own words, or you lack the courage to act
 EP> upon them. 
I don't think so . . . .  I think you are out of words.
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