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Reply #94: You claimed handguns are "used mostly by criminals, suicides, and in domestic violence situations." [View All]

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friendly_iconoclast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-18-11 12:33 AM
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94. You claimed handguns are "used mostly by criminals, suicides, and in domestic violence situations."
Which, on the face of it, puts you in the same league as the poster that claims large-capacity magazines are only useful to

spree killers. Be that as it may, I note a logical fallacy in your reply. You describe handguns as the weapon of choice for

suicides and criminals. Granted, that is true in many cases- but you claim these as the majority of users,

which clearly is untrue, given that there are tens of millions of handguns owned by private citizens in the US.


God knows we have our problems in this country, but if what you said was true the place would resemble Ciudad Juarez writ large.

On the contrary, crime and murder rates have decreased at the same time the number of handguns in private hands has skyrocketed.


So, you clearly fail at: A. logic B. factual accuracy, or C. grammar. Which one is it?

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