"Guns are specifically designed to kill: the logic error behind the whole gun debate"

[308rifleman]

Guns ARE designed to kill. Nothing wrong with that, though. Some people need to be killed. Like Jonathan Coreas-Salamanca, an illegal scumbag who raped two 11 year old girls in Montgomery County in Maryland (Washington Examiner, 2/25/20). Once again, our worthless and weak government has failed, as progressive d-bags like to say, our most vulnerable.

Absolutely right. Our bloated bureaucrats make certain they have protection, though. On the taxpayers' dime!

 

[Obie1]

Gun control arguments are specious.

Specious: superficially plausible but actually wrong

In classical logic, it's a form of fallacious reasoning called "begging the question," meaning one assumes his conclusion to be correct and uses that as evidence--also called circular logic. Most people incorrectly use the phrase "begs the question" to mean "prompts the question." Then again, most people are stupid.

 

[enbloc]

"This Gun WILL kill!"

 

[jrpascucci]

IEDs (car bombs, pipe bombs) in a civilian context are designed to kill.

Rifles are designed to kill, and handguns are designed to wound (and, hopefully stop), the animal (rational or otherwise) at whom you are aiming and pulling the trigger.

Those who can't tell the difference between the two cases, no recourse to logical analysis can help.

Beyond that - for the first, there is no deterrence value in having and not using (which even nuclear weapons have, and most certainly guns in the hands of civilians have).

Secondly, guns suck at doing anything other than the one thing they are designed for. Shitty hammers, crappy screwdrivers, mediocre-at-best bottle-openers. Fine at doing the one thing, not great at things outside of that. Being built-for-purpose does not mean built-for-worst-intent. (Thinking it does is a side-effect of violating the laws of thought and not understanding the implication of aristotle's four causes).

 

[xtry51]

Guns were made to kill...thats kind of the point of 2a. Stop playing mental gymnastics.

This.

 

[NewGuyRay]

If you read the article, it's not anti.

As for whether guns kill, None of the ones I have, have ever harmed a human while I've had them. I have some milsurps that might have, in a previous life, but that's a separate issue.

Yes, but the main premise of the article is flawed. There is no "logic error" in the pro-gun control movement. Driven by reality and necessity, the "pro" argument is devoid of logic and relies exclusively on emotion. If the gun control argument were reduced to logic, our side would have won long ago.

 

[Yosemite Sam]

Just warned wifey about killer knives in kitchen;

 

[whatluck]

It's not just intent, but also skill and mental well-being. The tool is only part of this equation.

There are people out there that could beat you to death with a rolled up news paper.