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Semiautomatic Rifles

Semiautomatic rifles should be....

  • Banned completely

    Votes: 7 13.7%

  • Banned if they are "military style" (e.g., have a pistol grip or adjustable shoulder stock)

    Votes: 2 3.9%

  • Not banned, but harder to buy (e.g., treated as NFA weapons)

    Votes: 4 7.8%

  • Regulated primarily at the state-level, as they are now

    Votes: 5 9.8%

  • Unregulated, except for general gun laws (as in most red states)

    Votes: 25 49.0%

  • Other

    Votes: 8 15.7%
  • Total voters
    51
TurtleDude said:
there are no good anti gun arguments if those arguments pretend to be about crime control. Good anti gun arguments would be honest and admit that the goal of anti gun advocates is to harass lawful gun owners and impede lawful gun ownership. Since all the anti gun arguments are invariably based on lies, none of them are "good"
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Chuckle.
 
Tlrmln said:
It's cute that you think that's an argument, let alone a good one.
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The argument doesn't need to be made because it's self-evident to anyone with reasonable empathy. Now the onus is on you to argue why it's okay for 20 first-graders to be slaughtered.
 
RF667799 said:
It's better than his argument opposing WW2. The site doesn't have the bandwidth.
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Try to find something that you're better at to do; your commentary is a waste.
 
Antiwar said:
The argument doesn't need to be made because it's self-evident to anyone with reasonable empathy. Now the onus is on you to argue why it's okay for 20 first-graders to be slaughtered.
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So first you say there are good arguments, then you say you don't need an argument, and then you make a blatant strawman argument. You're really on a roll here.

Antiwar said:
Try to find something that you're better at to do; your commentary is a waste.
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Physician heal thyself.
 
Tlrmln said:
So first you say there are good arguments, then you say you don't need an argument, and then you make a blatant strawman argument. You're really on a roll here.



Physician heal thyself.
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Trolling and straw.
 
RF667799 said:
Emotional appeals are good arguments. They're just not rational arguments.
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Quote: The appeal to emotion is only fallacious when the emotions that are elicited are irrelevant to evaluating the truth of the conclusion and serve to distract from rational consideration of relevant premises or information.


Appeal to emotion - Wikipedia

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Integrityrespec said:
Guns don't fire themselves. Arrest the abuser, charge and try them is they did something wrong. Make sentencing for using a firearm in a crime stiffer, and don't go easy on repeat offenders.
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Better we don't enable them in the first place.
 
Antiwar said:
The argument doesn't need to be made because it's self-evident to anyone with reasonable empathy. Now the onus is on you to argue why it's okay for 20 first-graders to be slaughtered.
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A Strawman argument is also a good one. Invent a position and demand your opponent defend it. 🤣

And it's an ad hominem to claim your opponent would agree with you if he only had more positive personal attributes.

Remember when you arrived at this forum and said you wanted quality, robust debate but everyone had to adhere to your standards?
 
Antiwar said:
Quote: The appeal to emotion is only fallacious when the emotions that are elicited are irrelevant to evaluating the truth of the conclusion and serve to distract from rational consideration of relevant premises or information.


Appeal to emotion - Wikipedia

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Right. Squawking about your empathy while pointing at a list is not a rational argument.
 
Antiwar said:
The argument doesn't need to be made because it's self-evident to anyone with reasonable empathy. Now the onus is on you to argue why it's okay for 20 first-graders to be slaughtered.
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No one has ever said it's okay.
 
There's nothing polite for me to say to the gun trolling ... that posted 239 and 240. I remember why I shouldn't bother with their commentary.
 
Antiwar said:
The argument doesn't need to be made because it's self-evident to anyone with reasonable empathy. Now the onus is on you to argue why it's okay for 20 first-graders to be slaughtered.
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that's psychobabbling nonsense
 
Crazy people will always be able to get guns in America

Someone always knows when someone has a loose screw.

We really need to change the way we treat the mentally ill. Giving them drugs and letting the join the homeless or letting the family deal with them or housing them in our jails or letting them deal with it alone just isn't working
 
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