Debate about Gun Control

[Eric the Green]

(06-14-2016, 01:51 AM)Galen Wrote:

(06-13-2016, 11:41 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: I have predicted that these horrible, ridiculous massacres would continue and get worse as long as people continue with these silly arguments about bans not working and so on. My prediction has come true, over and over again. So, I make it again. When will people in America drop their illusions and the gun fetish? "How many deaths does it take till he knows, that too many people have died?" This is one mixed up, crazy country. Look who's running for president. Look who controls congress. Look at who congress listens to: the NRA. Case closed; this country is too mentally ill to be trusted with gun ownership. The USA fails its background check. Big time.

Well they don't.  If the did then the War on Drugs would a success and no one would be using certain recreational pharmaceuticals that are deemed unacceptable.

Just love that collective outlook of yours.  One person goes off the rails and the entire US is insane.

If the behavior fits, then yes. The USA is not a nation of murderers who go off the rails; just an enabler of those who do. And what did Einstein say about persisting on the same course that has failed? That's what we're doing.

Guns are not drugs. People don't need assault rifles unless they are going to kill people. Anyone who gets one is already insane. Comparing the desire for guns to that of drugs, is to say that people get assault rifles in order to use it on themselves to kill themselves. But people don't need an AR-15 to kill themselves. I suppose libertarians want possession of bombs and ordnance to be legal too. How about nuclear weapons? Libertarians say we should have the right to make our own?

Beyond assault weapons, comparing gun control to the war on drugs is itself insane. Gun control is not making possessing guns illegal.

You lose the argument, but since you are Galen the Clueless, your ideology is more important to you than the safety of the people.