Armed carjacker meets armed citizen

[Lizzie Poppet]

59. Actually, it's a ludicrous analogy and an obvious appeal-to-emotion fallacy.

While the flaws with that analogy are legion, let's just go with the obvious category error: CP is an action, a gun is an object. One can equate various actions committed with firearms, but the action is not the object (and such an analogy actually bolsters the pro-gun argument...).

Moreover, while guns do indeed kill children, and killing is worse than exploiting (and is worse than the actual primary objection to CP, which is the profound psychological damage), guns do so in extremely small numbers in relation to the total number of guns. CP, on the other hand, seriously harms the child every single time.

Consider spending less time on unsupported didacticism ("Undeniably," "No basis to do so," "None&quot and more on crafting a sound, non-fallacious argument...