Gleaning Facebook: Dumb Argument

 I get so tired of the lame arguments, straw men, demagoguery, and inflammatory slogans of the gun lobby.

"If we 'Outlaw' guns only criminals will have them"

What straw man stupidity! What national leader has proposed "outlawing" guns? None.

Get this NRA Extremists: Americans, with very few exceptions, support the right of self-protection. But we also support, in large majorities, sensible limits on the types of guns that are legal, the capacities of magazines, and the convenience of crazies to wreak havoc with them. My right and yours to self-protection is real and basic and Constitutionally protected, but it is not absolute. It is not anti-Second-Amendment or nnti-American to debate where, between atomic arms and fisticuffs, lies the limit of the right to bear arms.

And if you act on a wish for weapons to rebel against a government elected by the people, then I want you put down just as surely as Washington put down the Whiskey Rebellion and the Union put down the Confederacy.

The Gun Lobby’s Dumbest Argument