Questions for the Left About Guns

January 15, 2013 at 9:29 am Pat 3 comments

Last night I was walking my dog and I had a thought about guns and the bizarre thinking of the left on this issue. Questions for them came to mind:

1. You always say that we can’t ban abortion because abortions won’t stop, they will just go into back alleys and become unsafe. This acknowledges that when people want something a black market responds by providing what is wanted, but which has been made illegal. Why are laws regarding guns different?

2. You believe we should legalize pot and other drugs because the “war on drugs” is a failure. People who want drugs are willing to break the law in order to get them. People who are willing to break the law by providing them are willing to take extraordinary risks, and engage in violent behavior, to provide them to end users. Why are guns different?

3. You believe that the problem of teen pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases is best approached by educating kids on the proper use birth control and especially condoms. You recoil in horror at the thought of telling kids they should abstain from sex. Teen sex is out there and there’s no way to stop it. Apparently it is not the sex that is the problem, it’s teaching people how to be responsible about it that is the answer. Yet, with guns, it is the gun that is the problem. It never crosses your mind that perhaps it is a matter of teaching kids the proper use and care of firearms, and firearm safety, as a way to deal with the reality that guns are out there and there’s no way to get rid of them. Why the difference in attitude regarding education of kids about two things that require responsibility?

I’m sure you could think of more occasions where one firmly held position held by the left is analogous to guns, but with guns they hold a completely different point of view.

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#1 | Written by John Galt about 4 months ago.

All three issues are good examples of reverse logic to the gun arguments. With the left, logic adapts to ideology.
There has never been intellectual honesty on the left.
#2 | Written by Jim at Conservatives on Fire about 4 months ago.

I used the black market argument earlier today. It happens every time and creates more problems not less.
#3 | Written by Pat about 4 months ago.

As I said in my post today (Jan 17), they want to act like the gun is the issue, because that’s the easy thing. To do that you have to ignore the black market issue, and the fact that people who use guns to commit crimes don’t worry too damned much about laws regarding guns. You might inconvenience the criminal, but you don’t stop him. In the meantime, the otherwise law abiding citizen has his/her liberty reduced. And, they don’t deal with the real problem, which is that you need to be able to lock up psychopaths before they commit mass murder. These guys tend not to simply appear one day, fully ready to do their crime. They’ve been spotted as being big trouble in advance, but nothing is done. “Availability” of counseling is not the issue (though that’s what Obama is providing). Many of these guys have seen counselors, and even threatened them! The problem is that there’s not a good way (quick to react and long term) to keep them off of the streets.

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