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Here is the entire issue of guns for right-wingers, largely:
"A bad guy wants to shoot you. Would you rather have a gun and shoot him, or be unarmed?"
That's the whole topic.
There's a recent incident: youth football, parents arguing, a son of one of the parents gets a handgun and shoots a woman and girl.
Yes, guns don't shoot people, people shoot people; but there's a difference between "idiots with guns" and "idiots without guns". The incident of "parents argued at a youth football game and no one got shot" isn't the same story.
Right-wingers are infamous for lacking empathy, understanding, concern about others, especially outside 'people like them' they relate to. So to them, "idiots with guns" who shoot people is of no concern to them; they say, they're not an idiot, so it doesn't exist. Their only reaction would be to want a gun all the more, to shoot the idiot if he tries to shoot them. It's an argument for MORE guns.
All the 'extra' shootings - the road rage, and so on - they just think, well, they wouldn't do that, so they don't matter. They don't count. And if they matter, it's only as more reason to want a gun.
There are a lot of arguments on guns pro and con. But this is a basic problem for right-wingers, whose math just doesn't count any shooting except "good guy shoots bad guy." Guns are for shooting the bad guy who is after them, and that's the whole issue. All the parents having guns would be a solution, not a problem. By the way, you'll never guess what state it happened in.
Fort Worth, Texas shooting: 2 people injured when gunfire broke at youth football game - CNN
"A bad guy wants to shoot you. Would you rather have a gun and shoot him, or be unarmed?"
That's the whole topic.
There's a recent incident: youth football, parents arguing, a son of one of the parents gets a handgun and shoots a woman and girl.
Yes, guns don't shoot people, people shoot people; but there's a difference between "idiots with guns" and "idiots without guns". The incident of "parents argued at a youth football game and no one got shot" isn't the same story.
Right-wingers are infamous for lacking empathy, understanding, concern about others, especially outside 'people like them' they relate to. So to them, "idiots with guns" who shoot people is of no concern to them; they say, they're not an idiot, so it doesn't exist. Their only reaction would be to want a gun all the more, to shoot the idiot if he tries to shoot them. It's an argument for MORE guns.
All the 'extra' shootings - the road rage, and so on - they just think, well, they wouldn't do that, so they don't matter. They don't count. And if they matter, it's only as more reason to want a gun.
There are a lot of arguments on guns pro and con. But this is a basic problem for right-wingers, whose math just doesn't count any shooting except "good guy shoots bad guy." Guns are for shooting the bad guy who is after them, and that's the whole issue. All the parents having guns would be a solution, not a problem. By the way, you'll never guess what state it happened in.
Fort Worth, Texas shooting: 2 people injured when gunfire broke at youth football game - CNN