Good One
One of our regular commenters, who goes by the moniker "maor," recently got off a good line in the comments that I wanted to highlight. On the subject of "wedge issues," meaning controversial issues that tend to divide people, an obvious question comes to mind:
What the heck is wrong with wedge issues in general??!!You can't say it's not a good point.You guys actually WANT the elections to be decided by hair?
I agree! These "wedge issues", "hot-button issues", "emotional issues", "single issues", etc., are the most important issues. The spiritual, religious, philosophical, moral, aesthetic, sexual issues are more important than the economic or even the military.
We gun owners use citizen gun rights as a wedge issue continuously, and we aim to keep doing so. (The gun haters would if they could but they can't. Because most people like the Constitution of the United States the way James Madison & Company wrote it and got it ratified.)
As usual, I agree completely with Steven Malcolm Anderson et al on what he wrote about the spiritual, religious, philoseophical, moral, aesthetic and sexual issues being more important than economic or military ones. They are all about how we define our culture. And how it in turn defines us.
Arnold Harris
Mount Horeb WI
Dear Arnold Harris:
Thank you! And I agree with you absolutely on guns. If the Second Amendment falls, everything else falls with it. The right to keep and bear arms is the right on which all our other rights depend.