If you are tryiing to persuade people to join a particular issue, it doesn't help when you alienate parts of your readerbase.
The first paragraph:
> I'm not just thinking of the country's dysfunctional Congress, pathological infatuation with firearms, addiction to litigation, crazy healthcare arrangements, engorged prison system, chronic inequality, 50-year-old military-industrial complex and out-of-control security services.
Right there you've already excluded persons who are pro-gun and want to support your cause.
This kind of issue transcends a lot of traditional barriers, so it would help if they weren't reconstructed around the argument.
Yeah, the "pathological infatuation with firearms" bit struck me as out of place among the other issues. I don't own guns, but I'm not afraid of people that do.
Wow, this makes me want to punch the writer more than any other line, and I pirate regularly. It's obvious that the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act needs reform, maybe that's why the press is having their lamest hacks write about it?
The first paragraph:
> I'm not just thinking of the country's dysfunctional Congress, pathological infatuation with firearms, addiction to litigation, crazy healthcare arrangements, engorged prison system, chronic inequality, 50-year-old military-industrial complex and out-of-control security services.
Right there you've already excluded persons who are pro-gun and want to support your cause.
This kind of issue transcends a lot of traditional barriers, so it would help if they weren't reconstructed around the argument.