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In reply to the discussion: Man shopping for coffee creamer at Walmart attacked by vigilante for carrying gun he was legally per [View all]Orrex
(63,200 posts)You asked me to "Remind me again why you think guns make us unsafe." That was not my assertion, so if I am guilty of a straw man then you are equally guilty, since you are falsely restating my assertion and attributing it to me. However, I've answered your question correctly several times, while you've petulantly ignored the question asked of you.
The question that I asked is not a straw man. It's a straightforward derivation of the question that you asked me. Since it is reasonable to conclude that your position is contrary to my own, it is reasonable to ask you the corresponding question.
You are free to answer by saying "I do not think that," which is the end of it.
You are free to answer by saying "I think that because X," which might also be a reasonable response.
You are free to reject the question and to indicate why, but you haven't done this.
You are free to offer other answers as you see fit.
You are free to ignore the question, but it would be bad form, since you'd demanded an answer from me, which I've provided.
You are also free to jump up and down and insist that the question is a straw man. You'll be comically and repeatedly wrong, but you're still free to do it.
Frankly, I don't accept that you're capable of rational argument, because you certainly haven't demonstrated it here. You seem to have no grasp of statistics or probability, and you make wild broadsides apparently in hope of distracting from the fact that you can't answer direct questions. You also imply racism and bigotry in an intellectually dishonest tactic apparently intended to make your opponent give ground. I do not care to justify your dishonesty with reply.
At this point I feel quite confident in concluding that you are impervious to reason on this subject, as is very common among gun advocates, so there is little to be gained from wasting time on further discussion with you.