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The gun debate never uses rational language on either side. For or against regulation, you hate America. If you believe, as I do, the 2A is rooted in codifying
by themartorana 11y ago
The gun debate never uses rational language on either side. For or against regulation, you hate America.
If you believe, as I do, the 2A is rooted in codifying the ability to take up arms against an oppressive (gun-restricting) government, as had just been done a few years prior, you're out of touch. If you believe in gun ownership for protection, you're going to accidentally shoot your child. If you believe all guns are bad, you're point of view is to be enforced at the business-end of a government-owned gun.
It's all madness. Try not to form a view of the argument from Reddit.
- matwood 11y agoThat's a good summary. It is also very regional/local. If I lived in Chicago I may think we should ban all guns tomorrow. But I do not live in Chicago and, having been around guns my whole life, do not see how removing them from legal owners fixes anything.
- cvwright 11y agoThe bitter irony is that Chicago already tries very hard to ban guns.
- themartorana 11y agoTo which some may reply that trying to remove a symptom does not a cure make.
- lostlogin 11y agoUntil it does, and judging by the row of analgesics at the supermarket dulling the pain is often enough.
- themartorana 11y agoI can't tell if you're being sarcastic - I'll assume you are. I don't imagine you actually believe perpetual use of pain killers is ever better than solving the root cause (and how tenuous a solution it is at that, ready to flare up worse than ever, with the patient now addicted to pain killers to boot).
- cname 11y ago> The gun debate never uses rational language on either side. Case in point?