Five myths about gun control
By Philip J. Cook and Jens LudwigSunday, June 13, 2010
Gun regulation is as American as Wyatt Earp, the legendary frontier lawman who enforced Dodge City's ban on gun-carrying within town limits. But two years ago in District of Columbia v. Heller, the Supreme Court decided for the first time that the Second Amendment grants a personal right to keep and bear arms, a decision that cast doubt on the future of gun control regulations in this country. Now, the court is considering a challenge to Chicago's ban on handgun ownership -- a regulation that has been in place for nearly 30 years. Would a repeal of the ban have a major impact on gun violence in Chicago or in other parts of the country? It's a tricky question. And disagreements on the answer come from several persistent myths about guns in America.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/06/11/AR2010061103259.html
This piece of theirs is part of a continuing series called "Five Myths." Before I begin my emotion-based argument, I will point out that as long as the Washington Post is pushing the Al Qaeda myth, they are hardly in possession of the professional cred to act as some arbiter of mythdom. It's spaceships and Al Qaeda and boxcutters and sundials over there. It's cuckoo news.
America is a collection of stupid people. You will not try to reason with them. You will resort to the most shameless non sequiters, strawman arguments, appeals to vanity, and whatever all else in shaping public opinion. Here is my argument against gun control:
- It is a statistical fact that only beautiful people own guns. You will never in a million years see an ugly person with a gun. Ergo, if you see a person with a gun, that person is attractive.
- Gun owners have more sex than non-gun owners.
- Practicing with guns weekly results in fewer per capita incidents of male pattern baldness. It's the lead in the bullets, maybe.
- Those in favor of gun control are little peepee pants pansies. In a state of nature, they would be among the first to be killed or eaten. And you don't want to be eaten, do you?
- Gun owners' girlfriends have bigger tits and put out more readily. This is a publicly known fact.