[lbo-talk] Where is the left argument for gun rights?

[Arthur Maisel]

A couple of recent postings have dismissed issues because they are
unimportant or fake. There is a standpoint from which that is true---and I
agree, at least up to the point of attributing their existence to
"intelligent design"---but it ignores a basic fact of communication: noise.

I understand that the ratio of signal to noise that is akin to entropy in
physical systems (and mathematically identical, I gather) occurs on a
different level, the level at which all communication is essentially the
same. But even considered as merely a metaphor, the "noise" in discourse
may not be possible to eliminate entirely and therfore should not be
dismissed. It is a real problem to be addressed, not denied.

For instance, there are a lot of real people---some of them with guns---who
think that guns are an important issue. To tell them (even holding one's
ill-disguised scorn in check) that they are simply wrong is not very
persuasive and unlikely to have much impact, is it?

On Tue, May 7, 2013 at 7:32 PM, Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> wrote:


>  The left argument on bun rights should be that it's a fake debate over
> trivia designed to lull liberals to sleep because Obama is for once on
> their
> side, or seems to be.
>
> It is  intellectual and political clutter.
>
> Carrol
>
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