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In reply to the discussion: Senate Panel Votes for Ban on Assault Weapons [View all]Straw Man
(6,623 posts)90. And again.
Last edited Fri Mar 15, 2013, 02:23 PM - Edit history (1)
So it seems a major part of the weapon's appeal is its ease of use. Lanza, as dysfunctional as he was, had evidently no difficulty using it to deadly effect on a massive scale. And yes, I continue to see a problem with that.
So you do advocate difficulty as a safety feature? I find that absurd. Hence my reductio, which I will stand by.
Ginsberg argued that NAMBLA had a right to state its position, as perverse as it was. He said that people who advocated the legalization of marijuana shouldn't be arrested for doing so, that arguing for legalizing marijuana wasn't the same thing as actually using it. That was the analogy he used. He was a free speech absolutist. Personally, I think the analogy is flawed, for a host of reasons, but that's grist for a whole other OP.
I understand Ginsberg's position as a free speech absolutist. I have trouble with his choosing NAMBLA, a group that advocates the sexual victimization of children, as his cause célèbre. I am no less repelled than if he had hitched his wagon to the American Nazi Party or the Ku Klux Klan.
But it's interesting. Ginsberg repels you for advocating that NAMBLA had a free speech right to assert its position. Burroughs actually shot and killed another human being, blowing her brains out during a game of William Tell, and yet here he is on this thread, being quoted for his pithy comments on gun control. I'm assuming that repels you as well.
No, it's not Ginsberg's free-speech advocacy that repels me. He supported NAMBLA'S goals, which include the abolition of age-of-consent laws. That repels me; his poetry and speech-rights beliefs do not. Burroughs' act repels me; his position on gun rights does not.
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I picture such technology coming from the European gun industry before the US
gejohnston
Mar 2013
#96
Of course you would require this safety device on LE weapons. They need to be safe with weapons also
oneshooter
Mar 2013
#97
An AR is exactly as difficult to shoot as any other small-caliber, light-recoiling civilian rifle.
benEzra
Mar 2013
#89
Why should anyone own a laptop or tablet computer when they can have a desktop? ...
spin
Mar 2013
#18
So am I responsible for the murder of the 20 children because I do not support banning ...
spin
Mar 2013
#67
Since you mentioned that you are through arguing about this on-line, I will not ...
spin
Mar 2013
#82
Now we can see where we stand, if it gets voted down and more than half of Americans polled wants
Thinkingabout
Mar 2013
#51
If you think pushing an AWB is going to play in favor of the Democratic party in 2014 ...
Pullo
Mar 2013
#54
Once again if more than half wants the ban and those who does not vote for the ban they are not
Thinkingabout
Mar 2013
#59
That' a good idea everyone who owns high capacity high caliber weapons let's cut off their feet and
Thinkingabout
Mar 2013
#76
I wondered why the suggestion in the first place but it might curtain mass killings.
Thinkingabout
Mar 2013
#79