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Gun Control & RKBA

Straw Man

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25. Whereas you're unwilling to look comprehensively at the problem ...

Reply to CreekDog (Reply #23)

Sat Oct 3, 2015, 01:45 AM

Oct 2015

... and wish to focus exclusively on guns.

I find it bizarre that some are far less interested in finding out why people want to kill a bunch of random strangers than they are in the tools with which they choose to do it.

The issue with Oklahoma City wasn't fertilizer; the issue with the Happy Land Social Club wasn't gasoline; the issue with Rwanda wasn't machetes. The issue with all these cases was homicidal rage and man's inhumanity to man.

The question is why people want to kill large numbers of their fellow human beings. If your answer is "Because gunz!", then you are merely fixing the doorbell while the house is on fire.

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so you're willing to look comprehensively at the problem CreekDog Oct 2015 #23

Sure shadowrider Oct 2015 #24

Whereas you're unwilling to look comprehensively at the problem ... Straw Man Oct 2015 #25

That's a great reply. You should make an OP of it. NaturalHigh Oct 2015 #29

I am willing to look comprehensively at the problem. Eleanors38 Oct 2015 #26

Newsflash. beevul Oct 2015 #27

I commend you for posting this OP in a manner which generated useful responses. Eleanors38 Oct 2015 #22

My take on it, FWIW. NaturalHigh Oct 2015 #28