Five Classic Pieces Of False Logic The Right Uses In Order To Promote Gun Culture. (politics)

submitted ago by donarty

1) Guns are a form of protection.

Shields, armour and helmets protect you. Guns shoot toxic pieces of lead into other people.

2) Guns are a form of self-defence.

They can be, sure. However, statistically speaking, more guns are used in crimes than are used in self-defence.

A study of gun use in the 1990s, by David Hemenway at the Harvard Injury Control Research Center, found that criminal use of guns is far more common than self-defense use of guns.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_violence_in_the_United_States

Obviously, potential criminals are going to purchase guns if they are legal. Therefore, you make a useless trade: increased personal protection for increased need for it. The only logical outcome of that trade is more people will die.

3) I don't trust the government.

If the government wants to get you, then your Dirty Harry handgun is not going to stop them. End of story.

4) A 100 lb woman shouldn't have to struggle with a 300 lb rapist.

But you can't arm the victim without simultaneously arming the rapist. So, instead of a rape occurring, which is consequently then investigated by the people whose job it is to investigate rapes, you have a bloodbath. Maybe the rapist gets killed, maybe the victim gets killed, maybe they both get killed, or maybe innocent bystanders get killed.

There are alternative ways to deal with rapists which are final, much safer, and do not end in loss of life.

5) Guns don't kill people. People kill people.

Then it is a stupid idea to give them guns then, isn't it? Unless you are trying to make fucking sure.

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Broc_Lia ago

Well, in fairness, you can't prove a negative. Anyhow, here's the best I could find. Most sites were just saying "it's fake," which doesn't prove much.

And yet another bogus Washington quote:

A free people ought not only to be armed and disciplined but they should have sufficient arms and ammunition to maintain a status of independence from any who might attempt to abuse them, which would include their own government

The actual quote:

A free people ought not only to be armed but disciplined; to which end a uniform and well digested plan is requisite: And their safety and interest require that they should promote such manufactories, as tend to render them independent on others, for essential, particularly for military supplies.

---George Washington's First Annual Message to Congress (January 8, 1790)

sauce

It seems to be more mercantilist than anti-government. Assuming that's the actual origin and he didn't say the original somewhere.