The GOP meme about gun
control legislation favored by the democrats is that they should focus on “terrorism
not guns.” But the mass slaughter by
guns in the U.S. which occurs everyday and adds up to some 31,000 dead people
each year isn’t terrorism.
And not all of the mass shootings in
Washington, Ft. Hood, Isla Vista, Charleston, Chattanooga, Roseburg, Colorado
Springs and San Bernardino were not connected to terrorism.
What the GOP is offering us
is a fallacy of false alternatives, pretending that either we focus on
terrorism or guns. But, terrorists use
guns! Duh!
What is really going on is
that most GOP politicians are on the take from the NRA, the blood money dripping
from their campaign coffers. It isn’t
that they can’t think straight. Most of
them are lawyers and have studied logical fallacies in pre-legal or legal
argumentation in law school.
What they do is purposely use errors in
reasoning to throw sand in the eyes of the public so we can’t see them for who
they are: prostitutes who give sex
workers a bad name.
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