Madeline
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The Glock dealer was no more a perpetrator than the American Imam.
The Glock dealer would not think to open up a store on the site of a mass murder. Nobody would defend the decency of his decision to do that, including me.
The American Imam, he doesn't have the same decency and respect.
Seriously, doesn't this hurt?
It's a great argument.
If you don't agree, refute it.
The cheap shot doesn't cut it Maddie.
Okay, let me see if I can explain, Missourian.
For the days since the terrible shooting in Arizona, Revere and I have been arguing. I have said the violent rhetoric should be foreclosed, and he has said I am undercutting free speech. He does not at all agree that an atmosphere of such speech may make such tragedies likely to recur.
"Only the shooter is responsible", he keeps saying.
But in the case of the Park 51 Mosque, he seems to do a complete backflip. Now ALL American Muslims, all mosques, are somehow responsible for 9/11. Now, a tenuous connection (that only exists if you agree with his beliefs about the role of religion in that tragedy, and I do not) between those who commit a crime and those whose speech MAY support their ideas (and other premise I'm not buying) should be used to foreclose freedom of religion.
Consistency is not exactly Revere's hallmark here.