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In reply to the discussion: Can you imagine believing this? [View all]beevul
(12,194 posts)62. Right.
30k people a year die from plastic knives get back to me with your silliness.
Because it was 30k people dying from plastic utensils that prompted those regs, right?
And no saying that some people can be trusted with a grenade doesn't mean grenades should be readily available to the public.
Anti-gunners can't help but conflate, like you're doing here. Because a discriminate weapon like a firearm that actually has to be aimed, is exactly like an indiscriminate weapon that kills anyone in its proximity.
Oh wait. They are illegal. Because there's no safe way for 350m Americans to have access to hand grenades without lots of death. Kinda like guns.
Oh, wait. You don't know fuckall about this subject, and are spewing falsehoods again. Grenades ARE legal to own under the national firearms act of 1934.
Oops. They're legally referred to as 'destructive devices' under the NFA. Look it up.
You can pretend 30k people dying a year from one cause, for decades, includes thousands and thousands of children isn't an epidemic, then you don't know what an epidemic is.
You can pretend that suicide and homicide have the same causes and therefore require the same solutions, to your hearts content, although it makes you look like you care nothing for the lives your using in a failed attempt to prop up your argument, since not correctly identifying the root cause does them all a major disservice. We on the other hand, can point out that factually, that suicides and homicides aren't the same, and they therefore don't have the same solutions.
I note that you still have yet to substantiate the "thousands of children" talking point. I thusly dismiss it, until such time as you substantiate it.
As to what an 'epidemic' is, meet mister dictionary:
ep·i·dem·ic: a widespread occurrence of an infectious disease in a community at a particular time.
"a flu epidemic"
Gun violence isn't an infectious disease, nor are individually made bad choices.
As far as the elderly... Now that IS scaremongering. Elderly people are much less likely to suffer from violent crime in Europe and guess what - they don't have guns to protect themselves. Huh.
None of which refutes the fact that such people are at a disadvantage.
All American pro-gun arguments boil down to the same thing: justifications for the senseless deaths of 10s of thousands of Americans.
All anti-gun arguments boil down to the same thing: Blaming deaths on the instrument rather than the people that choose to misuse that instrument, and short of that, blaming the people that aren't committing gun violence because they don't agree with you about the instrument.
Nothing new there.
Look...you aren't very good at this. You haven't any depth of understanding of the subject matter (tell me more about the legality of grenades, wont you?), and your anti-gun retread arguments keep coming off the wheels, as all anti-gun retread arguments inevitably do. At least consider boning up on the facts before you come in here wasting everyones time with falsehoods and hyperbole.
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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