Reply #40: and ya talk about yr close-minded [View All]

[iverglas]

Read "Restricting Handguns: The Liberal Skeptics Speak Out" edited by Don Kates. Or "Armed" by Gary Kleck.

And what, pray, might you have read in the way of critiques of those tracts, or analyses that reach somewhat different conclusions?

Surely you have considered such critiques and analyses carefully, being the open-minded chappy you undoubtedly are. Perhaps you can even direct us to some you are familiar with, and explain what you found wanting in them, to demonstrate that you did not reject them out-of-hand like. You wouldn't want anyone to suspect that you weren't being a proper liberal about it all, would you?

And surely you realize that an assertion that "x" backs up a statement, by someone who is fully aware that "x" is not revealed truth and in fact has been cogently characterized as deeply flawed, just doesn't get you much of anywhere, or get the public, in a democracy, in which the sincere and transparent discussion of policy positions is crucial to the success of the democratic project of the society, any farther.

If you ask for something to back up my assertion that the moon is made of green cheese, and I say "Mother Goose; read it yourself", I shall be expecting you to accept the proven truth of my statement forthwith, you know.