Reply #304: If you think that, then why make such a silly statement? [View All]

[Raskolnik]

This:

gun nuts don't wish to avail themselves of the services of police, preferring instead to just blast away at anything that moves and then pat themselves on the back for having defended themselves. It's so much tidier that way: with your victim dead, there's no way s/he's going to contradict your side of the story. With police, you've got all of those inconvenient things like due process of law, it's just a nuisance. Gun owners don't need no stinking badges, they have an innate sense for who deserves to die, no need to muddy the waters

simply cannot be reconciled with this:

You're carrying my point too far. I don't for an instant believe that every gun owner is of the douchebag variety. I'm sure that the vast majority of gun owners are responsible.

If you're now acknowledging that your previous statement was unsupportable (if not ridiculous) then I will leave it at that.