So, how come such highly-educated people go into brain-lock when simple but unpleasant truths are presented to them?

Dictators confiscate guns before purges. Why, then, would you support 'gun control?'

And if Democrats (liberals) are believers in individual freedom, why aren't they working to repeal legislation that says you can kidnap American citizens and torture them to death without ever telling a judge?

Call me a lunatic fringer, a racist, etc. all you want, but why can't you people answer these simple questions? Is it cowardice, or is simply that the liberal 'higher learning' institutions have taught you certain rote responses?