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In reply to the discussion: Can you imagine believing this? [View all]Straw Man
(6,775 posts)38. C'mon now ...
The problem with that logic
Is that it means that people would still be getting shot if there were no guns.
Is that it means that people would still be getting shot if there were no guns.
... you can do better than that. It means nothing of the kind. Your leaps into the realm of the absurd are stunning.
It means that without guns, plenty of people could and would still be violently victimized. You wouldn't be doing a thing to address that.
Let's imagine for a moment that you could pass legislation banning private ownership of firearms in the US. When you're all done with the buybacks and the turn-'em-ins and the like, who's still going to have firearms? Cops and criminals. If that thought makes you feel all warm and fuzzy, then perhaps you're not as progressive as you think you are.
It's not just guns or just Americans. But together you get 300,000 people shot dead in a decade.
200,000 of those are suicides. If you think that guns promote suicide, check out the comparative suicide rates for the US and Japan, the gun-controllers dream society.
And obviously if you remove all guns the number of people killed by guns will... Drop dramatically.
A pointless tautology.
Half ass gun control doesn't work either. Either accept thousands of dead kids a year or get rid of guns.
False dichotomy: much could be done through safety training, which most of your ilk oppose because it "legitimizes" gun ownership. The perfect is the enemy of the good, especially when it is unattainable.
Good luck.
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If so few are capable of governing themselves how fewer still are capable of governing others?
Nuclear Unicorn
May 2016
#53
I also see a daily report of police excesses. What's a unicorn to think now?
Nuclear Unicorn
May 2016
#65
I used to think I should be allowed to own whatever I wanted so long as I kept it to myself ...
marble falls
May 2016
#21