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>>Fewer guns === fewer shootings. Axiomatic. No way is that axiomatic: What room would you rather be in: 100 people in a room, each with a gun. One person is
by benjohnson 8y ago
>>Fewer guns === fewer shootings. Axiomatic.
No way is that axiomatic: What room would you rather be in:
100 people in a room, each with a gun. One person is Hitler.
100 people in a room, only one person has a gun and it's Hitler.
What your theory is missing is that often the intent of the person with a gun matters much more than the gun itself.
- abrahamepton 8y agoOh my god. This is so dumb that I'm almost compelled to frame it and put it on a wall. Let me know when you decide to join us in the real world, with real problems, where the statement "fewer guns === fewer shootings" is in fact axiomatic. I am confident that it is, if for no other reason than the way you choose to "disprove" it is by asking me to imagine a room with 100 people and Hitler in it. Like, if that's the best you got...it's a fucking axiom, my dude. Be better.
- AnimalMuppet 8y ago> Let me know when you decide to join us in the real world, with real problems, where the statement "fewer guns === fewer shootings" is in fact axiomatic. That may not be the real world. In fact, all you've supplied so far is your repeated assertion that it is. Maybe you should be better - like, supply something that looks like evidence rather than just assertion. > I am confident that it is, if for no other reason than the way you choose to "disprove" it is by asking me to imagine a room with 100 people and Hitler in it. Like, if that's the best you got...it's a fucking axiom, my dude. No. That's one person's one counterargument is something that you consider to be way out there. That does not make your assertion an axiom. It makes it an assertion with a counter-argument that you consider to be bogus, and that's all. And: "my dude"? Really? Being smug and condescending doesn't make you more convincing; it just means you're acting like a jerk.
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- dang 8y agoPlease don't post flamebait to HN. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html