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Originally Posted by Jeff OTMG
It amazes me the number of people who are dancing in celebration that they have an excuse to trumpet the gun control cause. You hear me Bloomberg? I see some of you calling for police and military to be allowed firearms, yet the last mass shooting was by an Army Major in 2009 at Ft Hood, TX. He killed 13 people. More than in the theater. If that is going to happen, why exempt members of the military? This shooting was an anomoly. With gun control becoming more lax over the last 18 years and concealed carry permits now available in 49 states, violent crime, including murder, is down to record lows. If you put these deaths and the situation in perspective, 14 innocent people were killed today, more than in Colorado, when a pickup truck had an accident in Texas. Those people were doing nothing more than riding down the highway, yet they died. There is no call to ban pickup trucks, but using gun control logic the tool is to blame. The deaths of innocent people at the hands of others is going to happen. You can't stop it. Death, horrible death, is a fact of life, look at the drug wars in Mexico, and we all just hope and pray that it doesn't strike to close to our friends and family.
My prayers go out to everyone touched by the tragedy in Colorado.
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Yeaaahhh ... let's not fight fire with fire here, duder.
Or I guess more correctly, let's not fight post hoc/causation fallacies with one of the most incredible series of post hoc fallacies I've ever seen. Correlation is certainly not causation (and you haven't even really proven correlation), and unrelated deaths have little to no bearing on the relative merits of gun control, one way or another.
Also, stop using suicide in Japan as an example of anything - the unique cultural phenomena existent in Japan (particularly w/re: suicide) make the analogy look borderline ignorant.
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