Look into the twisted logic of a committed anti-gun advocate.

[virginia mountainman]

Interesting look into the mind of an anti-gun advocate.

“Thus, even if we learned, say, that laws against child abuse did not, by themselves, reduce rates of child abuse, we would still have a strong ethical justification for keeping such laws on the books. Similarly, even if we could not show, for example, that laws banning private ownership of semi-automatic weapons actually reduced mass killings, a civilized society might still have sound ethical reasons for retaining these laws, as statements of its moral values.”

Ronald W. Pies, MD, Why Psychiatrists Must Confront Gun-related Violence

Willing to ban things simply "as a statement".... Interesting, just how some can be so obsessed, that they even openly admit that even if their pet legislation would not the desired effect, they would still do it, just to "make a statement"..

http://www.psychiatrictimes.com/blog/pies/content/article/10168/2110942

None are so blind as those that refuse to see..

[Deep13]

1. You may not agree with the conclusion...

...but there is nothing necessarily illogical there. Don't forget, crimes are punished after the fact.

[OffWithTheirHeads]

2. I'm not sure how this is relevent. Many, if not most of us are gun owners.

The government is not going to take them away. It's that simple. Any discussion of the idea that they will ultimatly be banned is simply mental masturbation and only serves to increase gun sales, which might be the real reason this even gets discussed in the first place.

[Eleanors38]

3. "statement of moral values." Ah, the rub. He wants to

Ban semi autos. And that is ALL there is to his logic.

More meaningless prohibitionism clothed in ill-defined moralism.