The true enemies of Obama’s gun-control push: Logic and facts
Obama’s most facile argument Wednesday was this plea for gun control: “[I]f there’s even one life that can be saved, then we’ve got an obligation to try.” Vice President Biden said a week earlier that “if your actions result in only saving one life, they’re worth taking.”
The flaw in this reasoning is pretty obvious. Thousands of Americans will drown this year in swimming pools. You could save many of those lives by banning swimming pools. That doesn’t mean we have “an obligation to try” banning swimming pools.
We don’t outlaw pools because — however heartless this sounds — we weigh other goods against the good of preventing deaths. In the case of a pool, we weigh the costs to health, fun and liberty against the lifesaving benefits of banning pools. When talking about gun control, we could weigh lives saved by outlawing guns against the costs to recreation, liberty and self-defense. But the Obama-Biden “just one child” rule precludes any two-sided analysis.
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If there is only one life that is saved because an armed citizen was there to prevent a murder…it would be worth it.
Oh wait…that happens ALL THE FRACKIN’ TIME!
Not a theoretical, an actual.
ProfShadow on January 17, 2013 at 10:04 PM
They’ve got a proven winner with their ‘manipulate clueless citizens’ emotions’ to get their way. Why change tactics when they keep winning?
Sadly, the clueless citizens keep allowing themselves to be manipulated by these freaks.
yhxqqsn on January 17, 2013 at 10:07 PM
Logic and facts have no place in this discussion only emotional appeals.
RickB on January 17, 2013 at 10:08 PM
If we did everything to save one child we wouldn’t be able to do anything.
Bishop on January 17, 2013 at 10:14 PM
When were logic and facts relevant to Obama?
Schadenfreude on January 17, 2013 at 10:27 PM
Facts and logic are like garlic to a leftist, but full steam ahead, anyway.
Thomas More on January 17, 2013 at 10:49 PM
re “one life saved.” Apparently the irony is lost on these puds about late term abortion and leaving the little fellas and gals in the closet after the procedure didn’t work well.
arnold ziffel on January 17, 2013 at 10:57 PM
Ironically the same omnipotent enemy that progressive liberal socialists have…
Facts and logic are the Iceberg to the Obamatanic.
wildcat72 on January 17, 2013 at 11:09 PM
The greatest crime in history is that Obama’s slutty mother spared the rod and spoiled the child. Because she was too busy finding islamists to spread her legs for.
wildcat72 on January 17, 2013 at 11:10 PM
…yet.
Ronnie on January 18, 2013 at 1:33 AM
Many children were killed by Fast and Furious. Clearly saving one child is not part of obama’s logic.
Ronnie on January 18, 2013 at 1:37 AM
I thought liberals were big on evolution? What happened to survival of the fittest?
Lost in Jersey on January 18, 2013 at 6:47 AM