A Usenet persona calling itself KMAN wrote:
in article , Scott Weiser at
wrote on 2/27/05 5:15 PM:
A Usenet persona calling itself BCITORGB wrote:
KMAN says:
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There's no way that even a gun nut really believes that a community
without
guns is going to have more gun deaths than a community with guns.
Right?
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I think you're being overly optimistic.
Indeed. The problem with this utopian ideal is that it is functionally
impossible, anywhere in the world, to have a community without guns.
That being the case, the argument is fallacious at its core.
There are lots of communities in the world where no one has a gun. And
amazingly, no one gets shot there!
Prove it. Show me one community that you can certify does not have a gun in
it, and then show me how you can prevent a gun from being brought into that
community from outside.
You can't. Fact is that guns exist, and because they do, no place is safe,
not even a prison or courthouse protected by metal detectors.
And since no place is safe, it is arrogant and evil in the extreme to
propose to disarm SOMEONE ELSE because of YOUR fear of guns. You may disarm
yourself, but your authority ends there, because you cannot (and will not)
provide for the safety of those you disarm.
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