Why do people get so wound up over non-issues?

Question

No one is going to take our guns. Abortion is legal and may never change. Why rant about it like your opinion will change it?

Abortion is legal,whether you agree with it or not. The second amendment is not being threatened.

To the lady below,I'm a lib,but probably own more guns than you. Yet no one has ever kept me from owning,buying or selling guns(or even tried to).

Non-issues. As in they are not an issue. Neither party is going to mess with either one. Did Bush make abortion illegal? Has anyone knocked on your door and asked for your guns?

Answer 1

This is how it works. Joe Blow politician wants the cushiest job in the world. To get that job he needs gobs of money for advertising. So he goes to a few dozen special interest and they give him millions of dollars but they also give him a list of things he can or can't support. He goes home and looks at the list and cries in disappointment. All the things he can support would tick off any rational voter and the ones he can't are exactly what people are screaming for. He racks his brains for something to claim he believes in. All that is left is non-issues. things that no one in government actually has the power to change like supreme court rulings and constitutional amendments. So he goes out and screams to anyone who will listen that he is going to change all of those things. Its safe because he can't actually affect them but he can claim to those who elected him later that he tried but was shot down by other evil politicians. If he's a republican he can say the democrats ham stringed his reform. If hes a democrat he can say the president vetoed his efforts, if hes president he can say congress wouldn't cooperate. He is sure that the voters are too stupid to check. Thats how we get these non-issues in every election.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

Don't know, why do you think abortion and gun control are non issues. They are very important issues and to say that they are not is well, quite frankly idiotic. Now opinions may not change in these two particular matters, but they are still very much political issues. Just try to put another conservative on the supreme court and see how the pro-choicers come out in force. Why is Rosie O'Donnell always spewing ban guns whenever a nut job goes crazy and shoots innocent people. Because they are issues.

Answer 4

I noticed that you used the phrase "may never change" when you mentioned abortion and that uncertainty makes it an important as well as a controversial issue.
As far as "non-issues" - I suspect that the media as well as a certain political party blows non-issues out of proportion when it becomes necessary to divert attention away from an important issue that they have been cheering on from the wrong side lines for a while now.

Answer 5

Thank goodness the Founding Fathers didn't feel that way. Of course, many in Europe took your stance with the Nazis, and look what happened.

And no, I'm not comparing your points with the Nazis (well, maybe abortion - it has killed more after all). I'm merely pointing out that we must be ever vigilant with our Constitutional rights.

Answer 6

Good point, but it would seem, at least in some arenas, the actual issues won't get discussed. Usually a discussion of ideas is met with exaggeration, vitriol, and sometimes even name-calling.

So, some people rant instead.

Answer 7

Why do people get so wound up over issues, a good debate is useful getting upset is a waste of energy.

Answer 8

Choices - that's what it's about. It is your choice to own a gun. If you are raped or a condom malfunctioned or there is something life threathening, it is your choice to have an abortion (although, some use it as a birth control method - I don't agree, but it is not MY CHOICE).

Answer 9

Perhaps those of us who are gun owners do consider it an issue when we have anti-gun extremists trying to outlaw them.

What may or may not be important to you doesn't mean that it may or may not be important to someone else.

Answer 10

2ND Amendment is NON ISSUE?
Much like FREEDOM OF SPEECH is a non issue.

I think you are all wrong. What a NON ISSUE is to me is gay marriage & the action of foreign governments.