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Gun Control & RKBA

Straw Man

(6,624 posts)

18. Arbitrary.

Reply to Rick Rolle (Reply #16)

Sun Feb 14, 2021, 06:11 AM

Feb 2021

Also, banning a magazine, based on an arbitrarily derived number, makes no sense. Why 10? Why not 9, or 11?

Why not 1? If the logic holds, that would save 9 lives that would otherwise have been lost.

Obviously the logic doesn't hold. Arbitrary is arbitrary, and logic has nothing to do with it.

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