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This episode begins with some voice mails from listeners, then I talk about a new gun coming into the market.
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I agree with your point that mag capacity restrictions are really about politicians having control over us.
Put that point aside, though and just consider at face value the claim that 10-shot mags are acceptable and 11 and higher are not, and are therefore ‘bad.’ Okay, remember the Clinton gun ban definition of ‘assault rifle’? If it has 3 specified features – not 2, not 4 – it qualifies as an ‘assault rifle’ and is ‘bad.’ Remember the 1-gun-per-month campaign? More than 1 gun per month is somehow ‘bad.’
So they are defining ‘good’ guns and ammo and ‘bad’ guns and ammo based on criteria they QUANTIFY. What does that reasoning sound like to you?
To me it sounds like a resurrection of the medieval superstition of numerology! Numbers supposedly have properties and things and events can be quantified, therefore they have those numbers’ properties as attributes. So some event or thing is good or bad based on numbers. At face value anti-gunners are neo-numerologists. A 10-shot mag is ‘good’ and 11+-shot mags are ‘bad.’ It’s superstition! It’s numerology!
Also, look at how they afraid of images and representations of guns! There’s a myth that in Victorian England they were so sexually repressed that tablecloths had to come down to the floor so the table legs were covered in order to prevent males from being aroused by the table legs having a likeness to womens’ legs. That is a popular myth, but now we have a reality of hoplophobes being scared that if a child sees a picture of a gun he will want to shoot people so children cannot be allowed to have guns enter their minds!
We cannot debate those people! How do you debate irrational, mystical numerologists? I think we can only bluntly and clearly point out the absurdity and irrationality of hoplophobic neo-numerology and dismiss it. This b.s. is what they have to resort to because there are no facts, experience, or principles that justify gun bans.
Alright, I have to stop before I make my comment into a blog post!
Happy Father’s Day!