What Do We Mean by Proper Gun Control?

[Straw Man]

206. Let's add "straw man" to the list ...

... of terms that you don't really understand.

So here's the thing, OK? My analogy was to illustrate a point about capricious laws that are overly broad in their application. It didn't have to be cars. It could have been liquor laws, or porn laws, or the tax code, or anything. I chose cars because they're easy to relate to.

You jumped to the huge conclusion that I was making an analogy between guns and cars. I wasn't. Once you threw it on the table, I played with it for a little while. But you never really addressed the point I made about laws. Instead, you started to pretend that it was all about guns and cars. It wasn't. It still isn't.

I don't want to be insulting, but since you started cracking about the "marbles rattling around," let me observe that you seem only to operate on the level of the grossest generalizations and don't really understand anything about rhetoric, including things like "example," "analogy," and "straw man."

While we've been having this little wrangle, you've managed to successfully evade the original question, which is how the public good is served by having someone who already owns a gun wait 10 days to purchase another. I don't want to hear the "no harm" nonsense, because there must be compelling reasons for laws that limit rights. "It wouldn't hurt" doesn't fly.