America, You Must Not Look Away (How to Finish Off the NRA) ...a letter from Michael Moore

[thucythucy]

147. You use the Bath school massacre as an example

of why banning assault weapons like the Bushmaster is an absurd idea. Dynamite was used at the Bath school, it was subsequently heavily regulated, to the point where "personal use" of dynamite is hardly considered a second amendment right. So if you're using the Bath massacre as any sort of analogy to Newtown, it fails for your purposes.

Here, I'll simplify it for you.

If Newtown = Bath then
Bushmaster = dynamite

then the proper response to Newtown is banning, for private personal use, the means used to commit the atrocity, just as happened at Bath. This then is a refutation of your talking point re: the absurdity of wanting to ban assault weapons. Unless what you're saying is, as long as ANY means exist anywhere for killing masses of people, attempting to control any other means is absurd. What about anthrax? What about nerve gas? All are methods for killing masses of people. I guess we shouldn't try to minimize those as well, right?

But then, the Bath school massacre is an NRA talking point, much as "just as many people are killed by cars" and "a hammer can be just as deadly" and "the real issue is mental illness" and "what about swimming pools" etc. etc. etc. We've heard them all.

The tide is turning. Too bad so many innocent people had to die for the change to begin.