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[ConservativeDemocrat]

88. I'm not misrepresenting you at all...

Your assertion is that swimming pools are safer "only because there are a lot more children who use swimming pools than there are children who go shooting." That is a direct quote of yours, so please don't pretend that you can disavow it.

From that statement it is easy to discern that you have conflated the idea of 'risk from normal use', with 'risk of mere possession'. However, most drowning deaths don't happen from normal use. Toddlers generally die in pools when no one is around.

For me to "misrepresent" your position, you would have to be advocating to outlaw - not guns - but firing ranges. However, since you're clearly advocating for guns to be outlawed, the correct equivalency to swimming pools is for them to be outlawed (not restrictions made on when children can use them), and the correct comparison needs to be "is having a gun safer than having a swimming pool?", not "is using a gun (on a firing range) safer than using a swimming pool?"

Insofar as the total number of gun deaths in the U.S. are concerned, you're aware that 2/3rds of them are suicide, right? And that there are many other ways of committing suicide? What are you going to campaign against next, sleeping pills?

Also, mandating that parents must buy a car seat (which they often don't) is different than mandating that every car come equipped with a built in child-seat (which could be hidden away when not in use). We don't have laws that "mandate" drivers go out and buy seat belts. We just force manufacturers to put them in.

Finally, you keep on attacking me over my use of the "Reality based community" as if this is some great victory of rhetoric. I suggest you go google that phrase a bit before you continue down this path, because your clear lack of knowledge about where it came from is sadly amusing (especially in regards to you asserting that I don't know things). We may disagree on this issue, but I (and many others like me who support the 2nd Amendment) are still Democrats.

- C.D. Proud Member of the Reality Based Community