Reply #25: Hmmm? [View All]

[Glassunion]

Logic: We must get rid of guns because a deranged lunatic may go on a shooting spree at any time and anyone who would own a gun out of fear of such a lunatic is paranoid.
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Most people can't be trusted, so we should have laws against guns, which most people will abide by because they can be trusted.
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Private citizens shouldn't have handguns, because they aren't "military(militia) weapons", but private citizens shouldn't have "assault rifles'', because they are military weapons.

Physics: An intruder will be incapacitated by tear gas or oven spray, but if shot with a .357 Magnum will get angry and kill you.
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Guns are so complex that special training is necessary to use them properly, and so simple to use that they make murder easy.
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Police officers have some special Jedi-like mastery over handguns that private citizens can never hope to obtain.

Morality:Ordinary people in the presence of guns turn into slaughtering butchers but revert to normal when the weapon is removed.
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"Assault weapons" have no purpose other than to kill large numbers of people. The police need assault weapons. You do not.
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A woman raped and strangled is morally superior to a woman with a smoking gun and a dead rapist at her feet.