RE: Proof gun control works
August 18, 2019 at 9:04 pm
(This post was last modified: August 18, 2019 at 9:50 pm by Fake Messiah.)
(August 18, 2019 at 5:55 pm)Lek Wrote: The problem is that it would take away the right to own a gun for self and family protection or to hunt, etc.
Yeah, banning mentally unstable people to buy guns will diminish the ability for hunting - you really figured this one out.
(August 18, 2019 at 5:55 pm)Lek Wrote: We regulate alcohol and driving which probably lowers the number of alcohol related accidents, but how far should we go?
Obviously not even an inch, like it is with guns.
(August 18, 2019 at 5:55 pm)Lek Wrote: In the 50s and 60s Americans probably owned more guns than today.
And they also had lynching.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"