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Taka Posted 18 years ago
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equals my needs

I guess this is not really a grammar question, but let me ask this here, nonetheless.
This is written by a person who is agains the use of guns and the gun industries:
I am unmoved by the insistence of the gun lobby that their desire to make, sell, buy, collect and, most of all, use mutilating, lethal weapons somehow equals my need to allow them to do so.
http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/tisd/1999/05/06/elimination/index1.html
About the part in bold, why does it equal to the author's need to allow them to do so when she is agains the use of guns?
  

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in this case, the view of the gun lobby. The author is saying that he/she is "unmoved" by this point of view.. A few other words meaning the same thing might be "unconvinced", not convinced, not persuaded, or not influenced.

— Ron In Ohio

  • in this case, the view of the gun lobby.
  • The author is saying that he/she is "unmoved" by this point of view..
  • A few other words meaning the same thing might be "unconvinced", not convinced, not persuaded, or not influenced.
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It does not equal the author's desire....he or she is giving another point of view...in this case, the view of the gun lobby.

The author is saying that he/she is "unmoved" by this point of view.. A few other words meaning the same thing might be "unconvinced", not convinced, not persuaded, or not influenced.
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