Omnigun, I think in your heart you really think you are trying to be an asset here by bringing in a different perspective for a different generation into the 2a efforts.
I don’t really know you personally so I am not trying to attack you on a personal level and I may be wrong about who you are. If I am, please excuse me and know that I am trying to understand you and give you the benefit of the doubt.
Know that I’m trying to see things from your perspective and don’t think you are intentionally trying to undermine the 2a community, but I think you are a bit misguided and hope you would listen to what I have to say.
Let me give you a piece of advise, take it for what it’s worth.
Just because you are in the IT field and people come to you asking you to solve their IT problems, it doesn’t mean that you know it all and have to correct everyone on this forum related to things not IT related, like politics, law, religion, etc.
Maybe you think that playing devils advocate is your role and it’s ok to have a little bit of that. You think (rightfully or wrongfully) that you have to speak up at each point and challenge everything that does not align with your beliefs in the same way EEF and Flapp_Jackson do (sorry FJ, didn’t mean to lump you in with the 2, just pointing out a behavior).
There are a lot of things you don’t know. You have been mistaken many times here and to your credit, you admit that you’re wrong and adjust your views and stances based on those correction.
It might benefit you to learn from this and think first before you speak.
Speak less, listen more, contemplate and try to understand what people are trying to say, before saying the first thing that comes to your mind.
You as a millennial are born as a product of your time and it’s certainly quite a different time. You try to discuss ideas in a very impartial way without realizing you are stepping on many people’s feet with the broad stokes and generalizations you state.
We are all not going to agree on the same things.
If you’re really here to learn and want to be accepted by the Hawaii gun community, you can ask questions respectfully and contemplate things as to why other people have different views than you and why you may be wrong in your beliefs.
As human beings, we all have equal value in the eyes of our Creator, but not everyone's opinion have equal value.
Instead of replying to every post that you don’t agree with, holding your tongue and that maybe the best thing you can do is to listen first.