Gun Control & RKBA
In reply to the discussion: Sheriff's East L.A. station holding gun buyback today (funded by forfeiture $$$) [View all]BainsBane
(53,026 posts)I thought perhaps rural and Wyoming was redundant, but not having been there I couldn't say for sure. It's not only who has guns but WHERE they have guns. As I have said repeatedly, a gun is very different in the city from the rural area. Many gun homicides are not committed by people with prior felonies. Every week someone on DU posts stories of toddlers who kill people. Abusive men love to shoot their wives with guns. It really is important that they have the right to do that whenever we want. I'm pretty sure the NRA considers that a constitutional right, along with letting children blow each others heads off because criminally negligent parents leave guns around when the kids become a nuisance.
Emotion is a normal human response. The absence of emotion in the face of the loss of life is indicative of psychological disturbance. "Emotional" is used by gun advocates as a proxy for saying it's irrational to care about people dying.
BTW, what is the empirical evidence that says my life and those of my neighbors are less important than your desire to proliferate guns?
It's quite handy your allies have lobbied so determinedly to forbid research from being done on guns. Not only have they made illegal federal funding into research, which means forbidden research, they have created criminal penalties for doctors who ask patients about guns in the home (in places like FL) or who write ANYTHING down about guns on the national level. Did you know ACA forbids doctors from writing about guns? Did you lobby for that measure? So now you can evoke a Positivist notion of empiricism in an effort to delegitimate human compassion.
There of course is empirical international evidence that shows societies without guns have much lower homicide rates, something you (sorry if I'm confusing you with another member here, either you or geckosfeet) have repeatedly misrepresented in ways that echo NRA talking points. The NRA loves to throw in property crimes to confuse the numbers. I think that reveals their assumption that they value property more than human life. In fact, the entire pro-gun position is premised on the notion that property is worth more than human beings. I disagree. Yes, I'm emotional that way. I have more feeling toward my family members than my TV set. I'm just irrational that way.