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Tag: Logic

Why Gun Control is logically flawed

By jgillmanjr, Section News
Posted on Mon Jan 07, 2013 at 10:04:30 AM EST
Tags: Logic, Liberties, Firearms (all tags)

Promoted because its Gun Control Day! ~

Originally posted at Random Rants, but I thought I would bring it over here as well - as a general discussion of liberties.

That's right, you read it in the title. Gun control, by its very nature, is logically fallible. In fact, the subject in particular doesn't, and rather, shouldn't, require that statistics about "how many people killed themselves with a gun" or "how many times a firearm was used in self defense" be put in play.

The use of statistics, when done within the context of governmental regulation, does nothing but introduce the use of arbitrary metrics down the road. Indeed, decisions like these need to be made in the private sector, such as when a business needs to decide whether or not to take action y based on information x. But I digress - liberties, including those of firearms ownership, shouldn't be based off of these type of decisions.

For example, someone might claim that saving one life is worth the firearms restrictions placed on x number of other people is worth it. Is it though? Who is to make that call? What if those restrictions save even 10 lives, but as a result, cost the lives of 20 others because they couldn't defend themselves? Who is the government to make that kind of decision? Where do we draw the line? Those previous two questions are examples of exactly WHY statistics shouldn't factor into the debate.

With that out of the way, let's follow the white rabbit of logic and move on.

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