Gun owners say goodbye to high-capacity magazines at Freedom Shoot (Colorado)

[Nuclear Unicorn]

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I understand you worship guns and love to pretend they are instruments of love. That position is delusional. It signals profound cognitive dissidence.

"cognitive dissidence"?

Cognitive -- to think

Dissidence -- to dissent.

I gladly plead guilty.

It is very disingenuous of you to singularly cite the West Bank and then accuse me of cherry-picking statistics to serve a particular argument. Nor does it disprove my contention that the per capita violent death rate of Chicago made being a citizen of the Windy City (must be all the bullets whizzing past) more dangerous than being a US soldier in Iraq. Nor does your article, which lumps drugs and non-gun violent crimes into its statistics, disprove my contention/cognitive dissent.

Some states with strict gun laws are also some of the most gun-violent. Some states with lax gun laws are some of the least gun-violent. Exceptions to both of those statements can be found. The point I'm making is: contrary to your assertion the mere presence of guns does not equal an uptick in gun violence. Guns are not the variable you are looking for. If you have even an ounce of sincerity for the victims you claim to champion perhaps you would serve them better focusing on more viable factors.

And there are other factors in play; factors that are more accessible to society to mitigate violence as a whole and that do not require abrogation of personal rights or political suicide in the pursuit of abrogation of personal rights. Once you mitigate those factors then maybe you could make an honest statement that guns are no longer required for self-defense.