Again....But it's never the guns!

[Whateverist]

Don't be willfully obtuse. You were going on an on about destructive weapons.

Obtuse is a good word for it. Apologists for the status quo on gun control are every bit as obtuse as their Christian counterparts. They fail to apply reason and judgement even handedly in exactly the same way. This should serve as a touch stone for any one who has ever honestly wanted to understand the motivation of a Christian apologist. The trick seems to be to compartmentalize the domains in which one applies good judgement.

From today's New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/16/opinio....html?_r=0

More Americans die in gun homicides and suicides in six months than have died in the last 25 years in every terrorist attack and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq combined.

.. As with guns, some auto deaths are caused by people who break laws or behave irresponsibly. But we don’t shrug and say, “Cars don’t kill people, drunks do.”

Instead, we have required seat belts, air bags, child seats and crash safety standards. We have introduced limited licenses for young drivers and tried to curb the use of mobile phones while driving. All this has reduced America’s traffic fatality rate per mile driven by nearly 90 percent since the 1950s.

In Australia in 1996 .. (t)he “national firearms agreement,” as it was known, led to the buyback of 650,000 guns and to tighter rules for licensing and safe storage of those remaining in public hands.

The law did not end gun ownership in Australia. It reduced the number of firearms in private hands by one-fifth, and they were the kinds most likely to be used in mass shootings.

In the 18 years before the law, Australia suffered 13 mass shootings — but not one in the 14 years after the law took full effect.