I know that you don't get why this might be offensive given that you actually believe "guns save lives", which is an obviously idiotic statement.
How do weapons which have a purpose of killing or causing serious bodily injury "save lives".
Or if you are going to skirt that they are weapons by trying to call them tools, then tools with the purpose of killing or causing serious bodily injury.
Anyway, perhaps this is correct since gun violence is pretty much unique to the United States if we are talking developed nations. If you want to add in the third world nations, then the comparison becomes more ominous.
After all, the US is pretty much the only developed nation that has mass shootings happen on a daily (or at least seemingly daily) basis.
Toss in that the larger the body count, the more the gun loons want the weapon!
Just think if the person shooting up a cinema had a slide fire equipped weapon (and knew how to clear a jam) how high the body count might have been! Better yet, think of the sales if there had been a huge death toll.
Lamar may have actually hit the nail on the head with this ad--Mass Death from Guns is as American as Apple Pie and Baseball.
And even better--you gun loons know that you aren't better than this.
You are wallowing in the gore.
There are killings by guns everyday, multiple times a day. Thanks for posting even a small amount of them.
ReplyDelete"Just think if the person shooting up a cinema had a slide fire equipped weapon (and knew how to clear a jam) how high the body count might have been! Better yet, think of the sales if there had been a huge death toll."
ReplyDeleteSo let me see if I'm understanding this correctly, you're just now noticing that advertising pushes the envelope in order to stand out?
As far as I can tell from what I've seen of the Slide Fire, it's a gimmick. But explain to me why you take the actions of a tiny number of people and generalize them to the very many Americans who own an AR-15--Americans who do no wrong with those rifles.
ReplyDelete"I know that you don't get why this might be offensive given that you actually believe "guns save lives", which is an obviously idiotic statement.
ReplyDeleteHow do weapons which have a purpose of killing or causing serious bodily injury "save lives"."
Good question. Maybe it should be asked of the Hawaii cop who, this morning, used his gun to stop the knife-wielding attacker who'd already cut one cop.
Or, is it your assertion that the knife couldn't possibly have been used to kill someone, so the defensive use of the gun couldn't possibly be saving even one life?
I for one, have no problem with the fact that true defensive uses of the gun exist. The only problem is they number in the hundreds (maybe the thousands, maybe) instead of the hundreds of thousands.
DeleteBut Mikeb, your claim is based on no evidence, while the National Academies of Science report is.
DeleteOh, now you're calling telephone surveys evidence. You are a wishy-washy guy, aren't you?
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