Comments on: Warning: Political Post – How time has changed the 2nd Amendment https://scratchmybrain.com/2013/04/18/warning-political-post-how-time-has-changed-the-2nd-amendment/ Jeff Albert's blog Thu, 18 Apr 2013 15:36:22 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.7 By: Jeff Albert https://scratchmybrain.com/2013/04/18/warning-political-post-how-time-has-changed-the-2nd-amendment/comment-page-1/#comment-55518 Thu, 18 Apr 2013 15:36:22 +0000 http://scratchmybrain.com/?p=1231#comment-55518 Re: the article that was posted on FB, I think there are stats that connect tighter gun controls laws with fewer gun deaths. He carefully chose the word gun murder instead of gun death. Maybe that correlation is different.

My response to the “gun control won’t end gun violence so why have any gun control” argument is that we never hear anyone say that underage drinking laws don’t end all underage drinking, so we should just have no underage drinking laws. People did at one point argue that seatbelts didn’t save all lives, so we shouldn’t have seat belt laws. We have in time seen that we are much safer on the road wearing a seat belt than not. Still we have seat belt laws even though they don’t save all lives. Fewer people die with them than without them.

If gun control legislation saved one life per year, would it be worth it? If one answers “no,” fine, we can agree to disagree. If one argues that gun control legislation will not even save one life per year, then one may be letting one’s ideology interfere with one’s rational thought.

]]> By: mcconnell https://scratchmybrain.com/2013/04/18/warning-political-post-how-time-has-changed-the-2nd-amendment/comment-page-1/#comment-55517 Thu, 18 Apr 2013 15:23:17 +0000 http://scratchmybrain.com/?p=1231#comment-55517 Remember all the SNL skits about the guy who shot Pres. Reagan: Oh yeah, I knew him. He was such a GREAT guy! We never had any doubt he would do something like try to assassinate the Pres!

]]> By: mcconnell https://scratchmybrain.com/2013/04/18/warning-political-post-how-time-has-changed-the-2nd-amendment/comment-page-1/#comment-55516 Thu, 18 Apr 2013 15:22:18 +0000 http://scratchmybrain.com/?p=1231#comment-55516 I don;t know what everyone means when they say, background check, but I suspect it won;t do anything to detect people who are fixing to go postal.

]]> By: Jeff Albert https://scratchmybrain.com/2013/04/18/warning-political-post-how-time-has-changed-the-2nd-amendment/comment-page-1/#comment-55515 Thu, 18 Apr 2013 15:06:50 +0000 http://scratchmybrain.com/?p=1231#comment-55515 Agreed. And if every legal gun owner has undergone a background check, then we may have fewer things from which we need to protect ourselves.

]]> By: mcconnell https://scratchmybrain.com/2013/04/18/warning-political-post-how-time-has-changed-the-2nd-amendment/comment-page-1/#comment-55514 Thu, 18 Apr 2013 15:04:54 +0000 http://scratchmybrain.com/?p=1231#comment-55514 Even our Founding Fathers could not have defended themselves from an entire army with one gun. And even though a gun might not protect you from EVERYTHING, it still can protect you from some things.

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