07-09-2016, 06:32 PM
(07-09-2016, 05:48 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: The gun fanatics say that gun control is "prohibition," and then trot out the reasons why prohibition doesn't work. Irrelevant straw man. Or they think that banning military weapons is violating our rights. Both non-starters. Gun control is not gun prohibition, and military weapons are different from civilian guns.
I am not advocating prohibition, at least not in the foreseeable future, or by forcible confiscation. But that will not stop the gun fanatics from claiming that I am.
Some of that is just argument about the definition of a word. Do you want the government to prohibit stuff? If so, you can reasonably be said to favor a prohibition. Check your dictionary. I'm using a common definition.
The other part is fact. Did alcohol prohibition work well in the 1930s? How has the war on drugs been doing? How well have recent attempts to keep bad guys from getting weapons worked?
Putting laws on the books is one thing. Enforcing them is another.
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