The shift in gun rhetoric is genuinly fascinating from a persuasion standpoint. People can hold opposing views simultaneously when the underlying framework is tribal rather than principled. I've watched this happen with free speech arguments too where the same folks flip depending on who's being platformed. The inability to see the contradiction probably says more about how political identity works than any specific policy debate.
The shift in gun rhetoric is genuinly fascinating from a persuasion standpoint. People can hold opposing views simultaneously when the underlying framework is tribal rather than principled. I've watched this happen with free speech arguments too where the same folks flip depending on who's being platformed. The inability to see the contradiction probably says more about how political identity works than any specific policy debate.
Well said. But I am left to wonder if they are clueless or they are being intentionally absurd.