Natalie puts together a stream of reason and logic that just can not be broken.
NRA News | Episode 29: "Fear of Guns" With Natalie Foster
Guns are a tool with a specific purpose. However without a hand to load the weapon and pull the trigger it is useless. Just an inanimate object.
So are nuclear weapons but that doesn't mean everyone should have them.
So are nuclear weapons but that doesn't mean everyone should have them.
I'm not sure why so many gun-rights activists insist on making the argument that "Guns are inanimate objects, they don't just go off on their own". That's a pretty big straw man. I don't think gun control advocates are quite that stupid.
I do agree with her basic premise though. I've taken several people shooting, and some of them were very hesitant about it at first, and with one exception, they all enjoyed it, and most have asked to go back and do it again.
That is not a straw man argument at all...
The Straw Man fallacy is committed when a person simply ignores a person's actual position and substitutes a distorted, exaggerated or misrepresented version of that position.
I'm not sure why so many gun-rights activists insist on making the argument that "Guns are inanimate objects, they don't just go off on their own". That's a pretty big straw man. I don't think gun control advocates are quite that stupid.
I do agree with her basic premise though. I've taken several people shooting, and some of them were very hesitant about it at first, and with one exception, they all enjoyed it, and most have asked to go back and do it again.
Not stupid indoctrinated. - The idea guns kill is not their own. It was born of gun control.
What was your purpose in taking people shooting? What did you hope to achieve and why was it desirable for your to do that?
What benefit would "come back again bring"?
I'm not sure why so many gun-rights activists insist on making the argument that "Guns are inanimate objects, they don't just go off on their own". That's a pretty big straw man. I don't think gun control advocates are quite that stupid.
I'm not sure anti-gun people are any more indoctrinated than pro-gun people in general. It's not like the NRA doesn't use spin and over the top rhetoric to get what they want, same as the Brady campaign does.
I took them because it was something fun to do. In both the cases where I took people who were hesitant about it at first, it was the wife/girlfriend of a friend of mine who wanted to go with her SO when I took him.
They had fun, and wanted to do it again.
I'm not sure anti-gun people are any more indoctrinated than pro-gun people in general. It's not like the NRA doesn't use spin and over the top rhetoric to get what they want, same as the Brady campaign does.
I took them because it was something fun to do. In both the cases where I took people who were hesitant about it at first, it was the wife/girlfriend of a friend of mine who wanted to go with her SO when I took him.
For the most part it appears they are. As they see the problem as the gun, not the mental health system or the people that use them for 'bad'.
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