Today’s Idiot is Robert Schiering, who writes that we gun nuts have no excuse:

At first glance, the term “gun nut” would appear to be nothing more than an ad hominem against the more enthusiastic weapon owners of this country. However, as one reads the literature espoused by gun nut organizations, the reasoning behind this term becomes startlingly clear. Gun nuts are called as such because they are incontrovertibly insane.

Actually, his entire article is one big ad hominem attack. I notice that his use of statistics doesn’t paint the whole picture. He points out the number of gun deaths but doesn’t note the numbers that are suicides (i.e., well over half) and thus doesn’t adequately compare the cost benefit. He also fails to mention gun uses that stop

He also states:

Owning an arsenal is not a “way of life,” it is a mental disorder. It is an unjustifiable paranoia that leads to thousands of unjustified deaths every year. Let’s put this in perspective. Annually, about 17,000 people die of illicit drug use (illegal), 0 people die of marijuana use (also illegal), 20,000 people die of sexual behaviors (not illegal, but frowned upon), while some 29,000 die in a firearm related incident, 1 percent of which result in a “bad guy” eating a lead sandwich.

This guy apparently just read all the anti-gun websites and repeated their propaganda. He’ll make a good journalist someday. My arsenal is a hobby. I like building things and shooting paper targets. I only own two guns that are for self defense and they are two handguns. The rest are hobby guns. What the boy genius here fails to note is the amount of crime that is prevented with guns that don’t involve someone eating a lead sandwich. What a moron. How’s that for ad hominem?

Posted in uncategorized on February 3rd, 2005 by SayUncle | RSS 2.0 |