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billh58

(6,640 posts)
2. K&R
Tue May 27, 2014, 10:37 PM
May 2014

With special emphasis on this (edited for emphasis) excerpt from the last paragraph in the OP:

"Speaking clearly also lets us examine the elements of a proposition plainly. We know that slogans masquerading as plain speech are mere rhetoric because, on a moment’s inspection, they reveal themselves to be absurd.

The best answer to a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun, reveals itself to be a lie on a single inspection: the best answer is to not let the bad guy have a gun.

Guns don’t kill people, people do. No: obviously, people with guns kill more people than people without them.

Why not ban knives or cars, which can be instruments of death, too? Because these things were designed to help people do things other than kill people.


These tired, old, overused, and false "talking points" have been repeated so often that gullible Second Amendment extremists actually believe them, and repeat them continuously.

More and more Americans are waking up to the facts of the source of gun violence in our society, and are beginning to take action through grass roots gun control movements all across the nation. Join in and help where you can.
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