Posted by
The Proud Liberal on Monday, October 29, 2007 9:26:36 AM
We'd like to keep IEDs out of the hands of people that we know will use them to kill American soldiers, even though they'd find less efficient ways to kill without the IEDs. The killers in Iraq are an easily identified population.
We also know that a small percentage of people will use handguns in the commission of a crime and in murder. But this population is not easily identifiable, even though they might find less efficient ways to rob and kill without their handguns. The underlying problem with armaments, then, is that of knowledge of intent (or future circumstance which will provoke a gun owner to kill.)
The NRA, it seems, has saddled us with a LIE. Armaments do kill. Saddled us with a LIE for their own self-interest. Be honest with the American people NRA. The problem with handguns is an inability to foresee the future. They do kill. This is an example of a sophistry in rhetoric whose intent is to LIE.