Posted by
The Proud Liberal on Sunday, October 28, 2007 11:50:46 AM
Iraqis kill. The NRA makes the point and conservatives back them up that the availability of guns shouldn't be constrained because the guns themselves don't kill. It is the human beings who have a motivation to kill and the will to squeeze the trigger who kill. And, the NRA points out that if someone wants to kill someone else they will find a way, even if they are denied guns.
Now, that's a perfectly logical argument (if you happen to be a conservative). What's of interest to me, and we saw this on Fox this morning, is the complaint that the Iranian Guards are furnishing Iraqis with missiles and IEDs and the whole blame gets dumped on the heads of Iran. No one, including the left as far as I can see, ever mentions that it is the Iraqi militias who want to kill Americans. It is the Iraqi militias who kill Americans with the IEDs and rockets. If the NRA logic is consistent we should not be focusing on the IEDs and rockets, which after all don't kill people, we should be focusing on the NRA point that if the militias want to kill Americans they will find a way to do it whether they have IEDs and rockets at all.