Gun Control & RKBA

Atypical Liberal

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148. That was apropos of nothing.

Wed Dec 28, 2011, 07:49 PM

Dec 2011

Reductio ad absurdum (Latin: "reduction to the absurd&quot is a form of argument in which a proposition is disproven by following its implications logically to an absurd consequence.

This has nothing to do with understanding why a man with 200 guns is more dangerous than a man with only 1 gun.

I have asked you countless times how a man with 200 guns is somehow dangerous enough that it would warrant restricting the number of firearms a person can own. You've come up with nothing.

No matter how many guns a man owns, he can only use maybe 2 of them at a time. There's no harm in a person owning dozens, or even hundreds of firearms because he can't possibly use them all to commit a crime.

Now you might say that someone with a lot of guns might be a target for theft. True, but so what? Are you saying we should restrict the rights of law-abiding people because someone might commit a crime against them?!?!

That's ridiculous.

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The irony! It burns! It burns! Straw Man Dec 2011 #91

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