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==About== | ==About== | ||
"[[Guns don't kill people]], people kill people!" is an [[argument in a box]] against [[gun regulation]], often used on bumper-stickers and other advertising venues. | "[[Guns don't kill people]], people kill people!" is an [[argument in a box]] against [[gun regulation]], often used on bumper-stickers and other advertising venues. | ||
===Interpretation=== | ===Interpretation=== | ||
| − | The implied argument is that preventing [[gun violence]] is best done by changing human behavior, not by preventing people from owning guns. | + | The implied argument is that preventing [[gun violence]] is best done by changing human behavior, not by preventing people from owning guns – and that therefore gun regulation is a bad idea. |
===Rebuttals=== | ===Rebuttals=== | ||
| − | * This is why we are trying to regulate | + | * This is why we are trying to regulate people, not guns. |
| − | * Guns don't kill people | + | ** We want mandatory safety lessons for people, not guns. |
| + | ** We want more thorough background checks for people, not guns. | ||
| + | ** We want stricter negligence penalties imposed on people, not guns. | ||
| + | * By a strange coincidence, people without guns are very unlikely to shoot anyone either. | ||
| + | * People without guns don't kill people nearly as easily. | ||
| + | * Guns don't kill people; people with guns kill people. | ||
| + | * "If guns don't kill people, then why do we give people guns when they go to war? Why not just send the people?" -- attributed to [[Ozzy Osbourne]] | ||
| + | ==Links== | ||
| + | * [https://plus.google.com/114144042339947449474/posts/XQRMDzhovs7 "Well no shit" mimage] | ||
Latest revision as of 20:42, 29 April 2013
About
"Guns don't kill people, people kill people!" is an argument in a box against gun regulation, often used on bumper-stickers and other advertising venues.
Interpretation
The implied argument is that preventing gun violence is best done by changing human behavior, not by preventing people from owning guns – and that therefore gun regulation is a bad idea.
Rebuttals
- This is why we are trying to regulate people, not guns.
- We want mandatory safety lessons for people, not guns.
- We want more thorough background checks for people, not guns.
- We want stricter negligence penalties imposed on people, not guns.
- By a strange coincidence, people without guns are very unlikely to shoot anyone either.
- People without guns don't kill people nearly as easily.
- Guns don't kill people; people with guns kill people.
- "If guns don't kill people, then why do we give people guns when they go to war? Why not just send the people?" -- attributed to Ozzy Osbourne