What, it’s impossible that one or more of these arguments are actually true and they merely aren’t trotted out all at once? Why should they be?
And what about the pro-gun arguments:
‘Background checks will make it harder for me to get a gun’ (but somehow not criminals, because someone who disobeys one law of course will automatically disobey any and every other law as well)
‘Doesn’t matter that other countries somehow manage to combine restrictions on gun ownership with low rates of crime, it’ll never work here’ (you mean the US and its citizens are somehow incapable of learning from countries which are more successful? Of even from events in their own past such as nuclear weapons reductions?)
‘Criminals will still get guns, just like they still get drugs’. Yep, and they cheat on taxes and drive drunk and do all manner of other things as well. The fact remains that we still have laws against these things on the books. And I doubt that God would smile upon us throwing up our hands in the face of all these inevitable evils and making them all legal and simply not even trying to implement laws about them.
I particularly love the poster who said ‘well, mass shootings went down in Australia, so did gun suicide, but rape went up’. Umm, if the two choices are rape or death I for one would certainly rather be raped and still alive, and know that hundreds at least of my fellow countrymen were likewise still alive because of gun restrictions. For me rape, although the idea is extremely traumatic and horrible, is certainly not ‘a fate worse than death’ nor do I see death as in any way preferable.
