RE: Another Gun Thread
May 22, 2019 at 10:27 am
(This post was last modified: May 22, 2019 at 10:35 am by The Grand Nudger.)
I think that what a competent gun advocate could tell you, is that it is tyranny when you could both get 100% of what you want, and there are better ways to get it, but by force of authority one side gets the shaft and the other doesn't (or can't) effect the purported beneficial consequence.
Banning sporting rifles and their accessories won't effect the intended outcome, and we know this, if for nothing else (and theres plenty else), on account of how we're not even discussing banning the guns and accessories that actually do contribute a statistically meaningful portion of gun violence.
Fact, mass shooters overwhelmingly prefer pistols, as all gun violence/crime overwhelming trends toward pistols, as all gun death and gun injury overwhelmingly trends towards pistols. So....lets...ban the black rifle and it's magazines? Mind, I'm not arguing against targeted bans and greater restrictions, I'm tacitly accepting them and that they work (which is itself questionable) -in principle-... and then asking whether the things so popular in gun control advocacy will succeed on their own merits by their own metrics? I think gun control advocates need to stop arguing with the nuts and start making the case -for- their own proposals. They might find that it's harder to do that than they think, and obviously harder than it is to roll around in shit with the gunswine, lol.
Banning sporting rifles and their accessories won't effect the intended outcome, and we know this, if for nothing else (and theres plenty else), on account of how we're not even discussing banning the guns and accessories that actually do contribute a statistically meaningful portion of gun violence.
Fact, mass shooters overwhelmingly prefer pistols, as all gun violence/crime overwhelming trends toward pistols, as all gun death and gun injury overwhelmingly trends towards pistols. So....lets...ban the black rifle and it's magazines? Mind, I'm not arguing against targeted bans and greater restrictions, I'm tacitly accepting them and that they work (which is itself questionable) -in principle-... and then asking whether the things so popular in gun control advocacy will succeed on their own merits by their own metrics? I think gun control advocates need to stop arguing with the nuts and start making the case -for- their own proposals. They might find that it's harder to do that than they think, and obviously harder than it is to roll around in shit with the gunswine, lol.
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