If some people are for banning guns, because they can do damage, then why don't we ban political ideas too, as they can do far more damage than guns? aka the pen is mightier than the sword.
2007-10-31 14:22:18 · 9 answers · asked by mannzaformulaone 3 in Politics & Government ➔ Other - Politics & Government
That's why the First Amendment and the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution are...well...the first and second amendments of the Bill of Rights. Your question boils down to whether it good policy to ban things that can be used to cause damage or not. In that regard, history speaks for itself. Countries that have usurped liberties from their citizens have, on average, never become anywhere near as successful as the American experiment. The presumption that individual liberties will be used to provide much more benefit than harm has been proven true and militates against banning either guns or ideas.
2007-11-01 05:23:53 · answer #1 · answered by Rationality Personified 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
And if we get to a point where the sword is mightier than the pen, do we begin banning knives?
2007-10-31 21:28:51 · answer #2 · answered by TexasTrev38 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
America is a violent country, our wars and crime rates prove it.
One way to reduce crime is to allow all law abiding citizens the right to pack a gun. It has been proven that reduces crime because the criminal doesn't know who's packing.
Would we therefore have an increase in crimes of passion as a result? Most assuredly yes, but again, statistically speaking, it is less then what criminals are currently doing.
As far as banning political ideas, that is practiced in many countries. It would not work in America. We are far too outspoken and political.
The big problem today, smear radio and talking heads. After being a Rush Ditto Head and taking what he said as the truth, I caught him in lie, so I started checking out what he was saying and found out 50% of it is taken out of context, made up on the fly, or just an out and out lie. Therefore, the other 50% must be assumed to be lies too. I find this universally true with most all talking heads, especially on smear radio.
We have been reduced to others doing our thinking for us and talking what they say as gospel truth.
That has divided this country in ways I have never seen on my 56 years on this planet and that includes during the Vietnam war era.
If anyone is to blame for the current division in this country, its not the dems or repugs, but rather the talking heads that are infecting this country with ideological cancers.
Peace
Jim
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2007-10-31 21:37:31 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
AKA a Logical Fallacy.
2007-10-31 21:27:46 · answer #4 · answered by A Balrog of Morgoth 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Go ahead.. You can be one of those people.. It'll be just like the banning gun crowd.. Whine about all you want, neither side will do anything about it...
2007-10-31 21:25:37 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Pens do not kill people, guns do. Anyone with any intelligence would sooner have a library than a gun collection.
2007-10-31 23:11:27 · answer #6 · answered by janniel 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Too much thought involved with that idea to sway the antigun crowd.
2007-10-31 21:26:00 · answer #7 · answered by Captain 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Because we haven't outlawed thoughtcrime yet. It's constitutionally wrong to outlaw ideas.
2007-10-31 23:13:31 · answer #8 · answered by Sean G 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When was the last time you saw an idea accidentally go off?
Or that someone said "I didn't know the idea was loaded?"
2007-10-31 21:40:21 · answer #9 · answered by coragryph 7 · 9⤊ 6⤋