(December 7, 2024 at 9:05 am)The Architect Of Fate Wrote:(December 7, 2024 at 6:51 am)Sheldon Wrote: I agree your rhetoric is blunt, but then facile rhetoric generally is, and you've leaped from that to a straw man. A country that embraces endemic private gun ownership, will likely see a corresponding increase in gun crime and violence. Embarking private gun ownership is a moral choice, geddit?Also if it takes 45 minutes for the cops to get to you that's not argument for guns that's argument as to why your cops suck because I have never had to 45 there here in 5 and I've ln some bad neighborhoods never needed a gun in my life.
Regardless of the moral cost, yes I get it, you don't seem to, and no it doesn't run me anyway, I don't live in the US. Nor would I choose to, though I am sure there are some lovely places to live.
What a spectacularly stupid lie, but even were this true, it wouldn't alter the fact that the massive amount of privately own guns is driving some gruesome corresponding statistics on gun violence and deaths. This remind of the failed religious programme of trying to convince young people not to have sex, rather than educating them about how to be safe, it also had corresponding catastrophic results.
His rather predictable response also ignores the fact that whomever he claims to be at the mercy of for those 45 minutes, is exponentially more likely to have a gun, in a country where they proliferate through lax gun laws, and a multi billion dollar industry in supplying them.
