Looks like "The Truth" has brought up a good fallacy in the presumption that logic always holds true in every circumstance. A=B & B=C So A must equal C.
Works great in math but does not hold necessarily true when people are involved. If "The Truth" statement actually held true then I & many others would be killers.
My guns have never killed anyone, so I guess my guns don't kill people.
Mystery solved. The only way that I could kill someone with a gun is if I dropped the clip out of the gun, picked up the clip, load rounds into the clip,
put the clip into the gun, pull the slide back to load the gun, then go and find somebody to shoot, found someone, point it at them, aim, and then pulled the trigger. Thats about 13 steps. Each step requires thought, and a willingness to move to the next step, which is a choice in itself. So don't give me this semantic BS that "guns kill people".
That would be like blaming alcohol for the drunk driving fatalities. We don't blame the beer, whiskey, or wine, we blame the driver behind the wheel. Who had a choice, to go get blasted and then get behind the wheel.
As far as the NRA comment... The NRA is a fairly moderate pro-gun group. They just happen to be the largest and the most visible. If you want to see a real pro-gun group, check out Gun Owners of America (G.O.A.) web site or Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership (JFPO) web site.
Go ahead and bash the NRA, but it would be very hard to stand ground against JFPO. After all many of their older members were subjected to the one thing many Second Amendment believers are trying to prevent from ever happening in this country. That one thing is the Holocaust. You may have heard about it.
PERPETRATOR GOVERNMENT
DATE
TARGET
# MURDERED (ESTIMATED)
DATE OF GUN CONTROL LAW
SOURCE DOCUMENT
Ottoman Turkey
1915-1917
Armenians 1-1.5 million
1886 1911
Art. 166, Penal Code
Art. 166 Penal Code
Soviet Union*
1929-1953
Anti-Communists
Anti-Stalinists
20 million
1929 Art.
182 Penal Code
Nazi Germany**& Occupied Europe
1933-1945
Jews, Gypsies, Anti-Nazis
13 million
1928, 1938
Law on Firearms & Ammunition, April 12
Weapons Law, March 18
China*
1949-1952
1957-1960
1966-1976
Anti-Communists
Rural Populations
Pro-Reform Group 20 million
1935
1957 Arts. 186-7, Penal Code
Art. 9, Security Law, Oct. 22
Guatemala
1960-1981
Maya Indians
100,000
1871, 1964
Decree 36, Nov 25
Decree 283, Oct 27
Uganda
1971-1979
Christians, Political Rivals
300,000
1955
1970 Firearms Ordinance
Firearms Act
Cambodia
1975-1979
Educated Persons
1 million
1956 Arts.
322-8, Penal Code
Yeah & many people say "It can't happen here". Well, disarm the people of a nation and its only a matter of time before the same people, or the children of the people that voted in such laws are subjugated into the position of being victims of such atrocities. |
