Letting Kids Shoot Guns Is Good for Them--TIME magazine, Aug. 28, 2014

[beevul]

56. Laughable. Utterly laughable.

"I know from experience gun violence could happen to anyone at any time."

Uh huh.

"We live with a physical fear of gun violence that restricts us as a society."

Most people don't.

"For example, I wouldn't go to a Walmart because of the Concealed and Open Carry crazies that like to do their ritual parades there."

So essentially, you're held hostage by your fear of these people and the guns they're carrying, in spite of the fact that this group of people which you point the finger at, are the least likely to commit "gun violence". And then you extrapolate from this "fear" and presume everyone else shares in it.

That makes sense.

The only one limiting your freedom, "holding you hostage", is you.

"Then there is the psychological impact. There is a pathology about a nation awash in guns. It is a symptom of deep insecurities."

Asserted without evidence, and dismissed likewise.

"And the need for owning and shooting unregulated military-style weapons is enough to give any responsible citizen serious concern."

Nice variation of "no true Scotsman" there. And "unregulated"? Ridiculous. "Military style"? So what. Heres your chance:

Please explain for the readers, what makes the "style" of the gun (as opposed to the substance) problematic.

("unregulated" )

"These are weapons of mass destruction, weapons of war."

No, and no. They fire a single round of ammunition for a single pull of the trigger. They do NOT fire burst or fully automatic like true "weapons of war" do. Militaries generally do not limit their troops to semi-automatic weapons. What you're doing here, is repeating a falsehood which has been around for 20 years, OR you're deliberately attributing to these weapons falsely, characteristics which they do not have.

Or both.

You tell me.


I think you just don't like guns or at least "guns other people have", and will cling to whatever justification you can to support that. Like most of the anti-gun crowd. You have all the standard anti-gun talking points down - "military style", "weapons of mass destruction", "weapons of war", "unregulated", etc.