Anderson Cooper 360

Another valuable lesson learned by the kids, don't ask a Senator to do something you yourself would not do if you were in the same position. Most people in the Senate can see beyond the less than clever questions and are not stupid.

This discourse will nudge the ‘face’ of America into a different mode again!

When the dissenters are not willing to listen - the visions of the 1968 era and anti-Vietnam protesters springs to mind!

Someone needs to be in charge and make better decisions for our Nation.

Newly excited activists are not always correct in their desires.

My answer would be along the same lines as Rubio’s. The right to own a firearm is embedded in the 2A to the Constitution. I support that right, as does the NRA. Why wouldn’t I accept their support? BTW—the NRA doesn’t advocate or condone what that shooter did.

There are senators that take money from Planned Parenthood, which I vehemently disagree with. I believe abortion is murder, and PPA directly causes the deaths of thousands of unborn children every year. But PPA is supporting those that agree with their agenda. And much of that support comes from my tax dollars.

That’s the way the world turns—not in clever sound bites and ‘gotcha’s’.

However, as an ardent supporter of the 2A, I would agree to every senator that supports my position turning down every dime from the NRA if those that support abortion turn down every dime from PPA. Is that ever going to happen? Hardly.

Let me end with a quote from Thomas Sowell—

“I think we're raising whole generations who regard facts as more or less optional.

We have kids in elementary school who are being urged to take stands on political issues, to write letters to congressmen and presidents about nuclear energy.

They're not a decade old, and they're being thrown these kinds of questions that can absorb the lifetime of a very brilliant and learned man. And they're being taught that it's important to have views, and they're not being taught that it's important to know what you're talking about.

It's important to hear the opposite viewpoint, and more important to learn how to distinguish why viewpoint A and viewpoint B are different, and which one has the most evidence or logic behind it. They disregard that. They hear something, they hear some rhetoric, and they run with it.”