A Usenet persona calling itself BCITORGB wrote:

Weiser says:
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Sorry, but you don't get off the hook by claiming hyperbole at this
juncture. Your clear claim, in context, was that one could buy a
"wicked
assault weapon" at the corner convenience store with no more scrutiny
or
difficulty than that of buying a pack of gum. That's a lie. You did not
qualify your statement by saying that it was your opinion that guns are
too
easy to acquire at the time. Now that you've been caught, you're trying
to
backpedal.

You could just admit that you were wrong.
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In this context, there is nothing wrong with stating that a particular
comment, made earlier, was hyperbole. Why can you not accept that.

Because that would be letting him off the hook, which I don't intend to do
until he admits that he was wrong. All he has to do is admit that buying an
"assault weapon" in the US is not as easily accomplished as buying a pack of
gum.

Could it be because, when you make such statements, you don't have the
jam to just say "hey, it was a figure of speech" or "I exaggerated to
make a point" or "It was poetic licence". No, you just keep defending
your dumb-assed statements.

He's free to call me on it if I do. I'm free to defend my statements to my
heart's content. It's called a debate. So far, his claims have fallen apart
while mine have held up.

I think everyone following this thread
understood perfectly well what KMAN intended with his statement. Sure,
it was a mild case of hyperbole, but he got his point across. Why don't
you deal with the larger issue instead of nit-picking.

Because one good nit-pick deserves another. He's the one who started the
nit-picking, I'm just following his lead. Any time he wishes to engage in
reasoned, dispassionate debate, I'm happy to oblige. But since he's just
being a Netwit, I'm going to pick at his arguments like a crow on a corpse
until there's nothing left of him.

And I disagree that he "got his point across." His point was fallacious to
begin with, which is exactly why I challenged him.

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