(December 16, 2012 at 11:17 am)Shell B Wrote: If you think I am arguing that there should be no regulations, you are either ascribing someone else's argument to me or putting up strawmen. I don't give a shit if gun use is regulated. I'm pointing out the fallacies in all of these, "But, but, guns are more destructive den anyting, eber." retarded ass arguments I keep seeing.
Strawman? Really? You want to talk about strawmen? Every time the NRA sees stuff like this happen, I always hear from them and their people about how I'm trying to take their guns away, even though I've never said that. Every time the government takes steps towards regulating guns, they always rely on that same strawman. It happened with the brady bill, it happened with trigger locks and it's happened with armor piercing bullets.
Much of your case seems to be that guns aren't any more destructive now than they were three hundred years ago. Tell me, were we to release Charles Manson into the public and give him a weapon, which would you rather he have: a 1799 era musket (with powder, pellets and any other accessories he'd need to use it) or a 2012 era assault rifle?
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"If you cling to something as the absolute truth and you are caught in it, when the truth comes in person to knock on your door you will refuse to let it in." ~ Siddhartha Gautama
