RE: "It's always too soon to talk about gun control"
02-17-2018, 02:40 PM (This post was last modified: 02-17-2018, 02:46 PM by SilverFang01. Edit Reason: adding source of quote. )
02-17-2018, 02:40 PM (This post was last modified: 02-17-2018, 02:46 PM by SilverFang01. Edit Reason: adding source of quote. )
(02-17-2018, 04:43 AM)Black Aeronaut Wrote: I would like to reiterate: while tougher gun laws may cut down on SOME of these outbursts of violence, it's not going to stop it entirely. After all, even a ten year old can make a pressure cooker bomb with some fertilizer, diesel, a cell phone, and a few sundries from the hobby shop. I shudder to think how much worse the Las Vegas attack would have been if the man had used pipe bombs hidden in discarded drinking cups.
Seems to me that you are falling for the Nirvana fallacy. If it is not a 100 % effective, then it's not worth doing. Like with everything else, it's a step, nobody is expecting it to completely solve the problem, but is a step that allow us to take the next, and the next.
Quote:It is not incumbent upon you to finish the task. Yet you are not free to desist from it. "Ethics of the Fathers"
With respect to the NRA, the fact that the organization is in the sights of the FBI for helping funnel russian money to Trump and the GOP can be used to undercut the organization's hold on politicians. Specially as more people are starting to make deals with Mueller. It will be just a matter of being unmerciful when taking the NRA to task.
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