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I admit it, I am a single issue voter, I know the moral arguments against using a single issue as a litmus test, and I am aware that in the complicated nature of the modern word, and how that complicates the decision making process. Yet I am proud of my single issue stance, and if you permit me to wax political on a “relatively” politics free website I will show you why.
If I had a teenage daughter, the main advice I would to ignore everything the boys say and judge everything they do… This works as a defense against hormonal teen boys, but I think it is an even better defense against politicians.
In my experience, politicians think about the next election more than anything else, and while they may not actually “Lie” none will tell you exactly what is on their mind.
Until we get statesmen that are more concerned with the next generation, instead of the next election, I have to have a method to cut through what a politician says, so I can to get to the meat of how they think.
The problem is that voting records don’t tell the entire story, and I believe that reasonable people can be influenced to change their beliefs over time if convinced of the validity of those new beliefs. Reagan, for instance, was once a Democrat, yet his conversion was not called “flip-flopping”, because he could clearly articulate his reasons for becoming a Republican. Personally, I used to be much more liberal in my views toward the justice system.
As my education level grew, I gained experience working in corrections, and through my firearm training, I have refined my viewpoints over time as it relates to justice, fairness, and the most effective means of solving interpersonal conflict. I am now much more conservative in those aspects than I was in my younger days.
However, even though my political philosophy has become more conservative, my basic principles have remained unshakable. I want a strong country, where kids are well taken care of and the elderly can live out their lives in dignity. I firmly believe that hard work and intelligent decisions must be rewarded and the lazy and willfully ignorant should have to face those consequences. I demand that my family can live in peace. I think most of those desires are universal (unless you are a politician wanting the votes of the lazy and ignorant)…
I believe that I found one issue (out of several possibilities) that gives me an insight into a person’s thought process so that I can forecast their actions based upon their stand on this one principle.
Care to take a guess what that issue is?
Guns
Why guns?
I am going to illustrate 7 ways a politician’s stance on private gun ownership gives me an insight into his true belief system.
I could go on and on, about the benefits of guns, or the ineffectiveness of gun laws, or all the cases of the federal government breaking its own firearms laws to traffic guns to terrorists, but that is not the point.
The point is that if a politician does not trust me, then I cannot afford to trust him. There is no greater measure of trust than to meet an armed man as an equal; to salute him and say, “I see your weapon, I know your skill, but I know you are honorable, and I bear you no ill will. I am no threat to you, and you are not a threat to me.”
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2012-12-11 23:23:08
Source: http://www.tngun.com/mindset/7-reasons-i-am-a-single-issue-voter/