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Originally Posted by scaeagles
If that is the end game of such participation, being the exclusion of others, then I can see that as being harmful to community. However, are gun owners gun owners so that they can feel superior to others? I guess it could be, but I don't see it that way. Are religious people religious so that they can feel superior? More often than I would like, indeed, but calling a religion exclusionary is a fine line - if one wishes to subscribe to the tenets of a religion that person is not often excluded from it.
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He was specifically talking about a subset of people who, due to economic pressure, turn to those things. It doesn't even take a reinterpretation of what he said to see that he was not referring to ALL gun owners or ALL religious people.
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There may be truth in what he said as you have explained it Alex, but someone who is as eloquent as he is needs to be more careful about soundind elitist. It may not bother you, but most of America is bothered by it, which is why he is and has been taking heat for it.
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This is true, and he is in the delicate position that since he IS usually so eloquent, the slightest slip up is going to be magnified. But at least this slip up is the result of being a little too honest and just not explaining it well rather than, say, certain other people who "misspeak" by telling flat out lies and continuing to lie about it after being caught lying.