Why We Can’t Have A “Reasonable Discussion” On 2A

(Before It's News)

Via WRSA

  

 I remind everyone that with some 300,000,000 guns in America and about 11,000 homicides a year 0.004% of them are used in a murder annually.  In other words 99.996% of the firearms owned are not used to murder someone in a given year.

The other night I got into a twitter-flamefest with Dylan Ratigan on, you guessed it, guns.

He tweeted something about The Senate and “reasonable” gun control and I went after him.  He responded and the game was on.  You can back through my timeline (as Tickerguy) and have a look if you want.

The conversation quickly degenerated when he started with the “So you’re for private ownership of nukes, right?” crap and “The Second Amendment was written in a time of muskets, so that’s what it covers” nonsense.

I retorted with “So the First Amendment is about movable type, paper and ink — hand-driven — right?“

Ah, no answer.

Didn’t think I’d get one, by the way, so rather than keep hammering that I instead pointed this out the following (and it took three tweets to do it @ 140 characters each):

This is why we can’t have a “reasonable” debate on this point with people on the other side of the debate.

They refuse to recognize these essential facts:

http://freenorthcarolina.blogspot.m

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