Reply #73: Your rhetoric-fu is NOT very good [View All]

[asthmaticeog]

"Gee, John AshKKKroft and Tom DeLay and Pat Buchanan and David Duke and Trent Lott agree with you...Ted Kennedy and John Kerry and John Edwards and Nancy Pelosi and John Lewis agree with me and THAT isn't any sort of fucking hint?"

That's what's called a "Circumstantial Ad Hominem" and is inadmissable; just becuase I favor individual gun ownership does not make me of like kind with the persons you cite; indeed, some of the people you cite are (or at least have in the past been) open antisemites (which is prejudicial use of language, an emotive argument, itself a seperate fallacy) and I'm of Jewish heritage, but nice try. It also contains the appeal to authority, which is utterly fraudulent in this case because you cite politicians, not constitutional scholars, to "support" a constitutional argument.

In short, you got nothin'. I won't even address your courts arguments because you're cherry-picking. If your assertions were true, Americans wouldn't be legally allowed to own guns, and yet we are. As well we should be.

By the way, just in case you're keeping score at home, I don't own a gun and have only ever fired one once in my life, at a range. Am I still a gun nut?