Your definition of true bravery is laughable.
true bravery is in facing risk and danger like running into a burning building, fighting against overwhelming odds, facing certain death that type of shit but having and expressing an opinion even an unpopular one in a free country isn't brave it's normal and it's not exactly rebelling against "social conformity" to be for gun control no matter who you are people are pretty evenly divided on the issue but I guess it would be a surprise if you group everyone into a little box.
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He could lose his job, get ostracized from his community and so on. He's speaking out for gun control amid those risks.
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Edited by BlaqSpiral: 10/30/2015 2:53:04 PMBut his life isnt reasonably in danger... This isn't a man standing down a column of tanks in a tyrannical nation... This is some guy expressing his views in a country where its protected by the Constitution. There will be no powerful group that stops his school bus so they can shoot him in the head.
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Was it not brave for MLK to make his "I have a dream" speech?
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It was because he faced severe beating and death... He was ultimately assassinated. The idea that people's words being the thing you have to fear the most, makes you brave, is a joke. Caitlyn Jenner's "coming out" would have been brave in decades past, but there literally 100s of millions of people in this country that don't care.
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Edited by LiamCDM: 10/30/2015 6:49:11 PMHis opinion is very unpopular where he lives. It's just like an LGBTO person coming out. It's brave because they know the criticisms and harassment and bullying they could experience but they don't care. I don't like Caitlyn Jenner but she is a very brave woman for coming out as trans. It's the same thing really.
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Edited by BlaqSpiral: 10/30/2015 7:38:15 PMIt's not bravery... Having a different opinion doesn't make you brave. You can not be brave if your opposition is only theoretical/non physical.
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Edited by LiamCDM: 10/31/2015 1:05:58 AMbrav·er·y ˈbrāv(ə)rē/Submit noun courageous behavior or character. It takes tremendous courage to go against social conformity and the traditional beliefs of your community. He could as he said, lose his career, he could be shunned by his friends and so on. How does that not take courage? How does it not take courage to speak for what you believe, knowing the social and although not in this case, physical consequences?
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He can't get fired for his opinion at least not on paper and ostracized? This isn't the 16th century some people might be a dick to him but its not like hel be shunned, exiled or killed for it.
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Edited by LiamCDM: 10/30/2015 2:04:36 AMHe can be actually.