(December 3, 2015 at 2:47 pm)Minimalist Wrote:(December 3, 2015 at 12:45 pm)The_Empress Wrote: I didn't do that...
Min, please don't tell me you're going into Brian-style histrionics and straw men.
Um, yeah you did.
This:
Quote: Except that the people who carried this out are (or were) criminals. I can't imagine they'd be like, "oh! We can't get a legal guns? Darn it! I guess we won't try to pull off that mass shooting. Bummer. We were so looking forward to that!"
pretty well matches one of their oldest talking points.
"If guns are outlawed only outlaws will have guns."
Did I say, "If guns are outlawed only outlaws have guns"?
My point was that, a. they're already criminals because they killed and injured a bunch of people yesterday, guns or no guns; and b. we have an extremely high concentration of guns in this country and outlawing them is not going to get rid of them right away. I wish it would, but it won't.
Please don't strawman me and assign arguments I'm not even making. It's my biggest pet peeve, and I won't have it. Fuck that.
Nolite te bastardes carborundorum.
