dpnewell wrote:Come on Brewha, you're smarter then this. Do I have to spell it out for you? It was a sarcastic absurdity, to point out other absurdities, that for some reason you tend to grasp as "logic".
Restricting a Constitutional right to the law abiding, in the hope that it will stop criminals (those who do not obey laws), from committing criminal acts. How can anyone consider that to be the least bit rational?
Yet I hear all the time “if it only saves one child”. OK, bud, if the gun grabbers are so concerned with saving life, then maybe they should look at the conveniences they enjoy that kill children every year. They sure don’t seem to have any problem sacrificing lives for the sake of their recreation and convenience. Total hypocrisy, but I’m sure you can’t even see it.
Give yourself more credit DP. What you see as absurdly sarcastic would ring true to many as the most insightful truths spoken from the prophet of God himself. Don’t underestimate the stupid. Your posting “filled with sound and fury” should cause Fox to offer you a job.
On to the point at hand, you make the statement;
“Restricting a Constitutional right to the law abiding, in the hope that it will stop criminals (those who do not obey laws), from committing criminal acts. How can anyone consider that to be the least bit rational?”
I recognize that it is appealing to write in embellished emotional terms, but his sort of slight of hand only works with the short sited – and who aren’t watching. In fact our entire body of laws (with exception of tax code I suppose) does what you question as being “the least bit rational”. We criminalize acts, and that limits our freedoms – and gladly. Who the hell wants child rape to be legal? You?
Truth is you call it hypocrisy because you don’t understand the issue or simply are on the opposition. You resort to the absurd because you lack any realistic argument.
Everything is a mix of benefit and hazard (even hot tubs). At question is the benefit/hazard ratio of some weapons. So again I ask you, what is the benefit to these weapons?