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This tells me you don't understand my point. As for your feeling cold, I don't care. Perhaps you should put on a coat before debating me. The idea is ...

Those are rare, and it hasn't prevented mass killings in countries that have stricter gun control, unless you believe death by a gun is somehow worse ...

Mae govannen, I am the Eagle of the Star, and I try not to hate, but I do find many of the moderators on this forum to be rather insufferable and hypo...

I do understand, and I have defended them.

Ah, so this is the point at which we enter into a semantics battle. I'm not interested in that. If 1) you are concerned with preventing crime and 2) t...

You're not even characterizing my argument correctly, seeing as you've left out the part where I said that one has the right to proper, i.e. adequate ...

No you haven't. You've tried passing the baton back to me to prove that there aren't other means as effective as guns in every scenario. Sorry, Sappy,...

I can only take your word for it. But it remains the case that your statement was not obviously true unless qualified, which you have now done. Good j...

No it doesn't. My argument is proven to be unsound if one or all of my premises are false. Your objection to premise two is fallacious, so my argument...

Yes, I was looking up similar statistics when composing my reply to Sapientia. My point still stands that the claim he made, without qualification, is...

I bet if I looked in your kitchen cabinets, I could find ingredients to make a bomb. If you own a vehicle, then as you should well know, it can be use...

I said earlier that you still haven't proven that there are other means as effective as a gun for every given scenario. That remains true. Please don'...

This is way too simplistic. Do you assert it as a statistical claim? If so, what does it count as stab wounds? Stepping on a tack, cutting your finger...

That's my point. You own things that can be used in significantly dangerous ways that you and no one else objects to the rightful ownership of. Other ...

Right, so you admit you weren't being serious, given this tongue-in-cheek sentence.

Why is the prevention of crime with the private use of guns unreasonable? You still haven't explained why.

Adequate and effective. Any proper means. This appears to be your key objection. I don't think it affects my argument, as there are plenty of things o...

Naturally. Your examples are ridiculous. None of them make any sense as effective means of self-defense.

That might be true if I based my position with respect to the right to bear arms on the jokes of a comedian. Why not? Why are you even respond to me, ...

Wrong. I gave an argument which you have consistently failed to engage.

I never said one needed to kill someone with a gun to prevent a robbery. It's irritating having to repeat myself so often, but as I have said several ...

Scroll up, I've already addressed your objection.

I heard you the first time. Oh I can imagine them, but that still doesn't make them as effective as a gun. You still haven't shown that. You've merely...

Could? How do you know that? Do you have experience warding off would-be murderers, thieves, and rapists by other means? What are those means? What if...

Your comments demonstrate that not only do you have precious little knowledge of firearms, you have little to no interest in learning more about them....

You seem to be assuming that using a gun for self-defense is a form of excessive force. Why do you think that?

It is no more dogmatic or narrow minded for Westerners to study Western philosophy than it is for Easterners to study Eastern philosophy. Only the Wes...

This.

On page one, I mentioned a drawer and a purse. That was a general statement, though, and wasn't meant to respond to your specific scenario of children...

Yes, you seem intent on staying there.

You must have a very poor imagination.

http://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/2015/06/daniel-zimmerman/bad-arguments-for-gun-control-a-response-to-australian-comedian-jim-jefferies/

What?

Huh? You want a philosophical discussion and yet post a video of a comedian strawmanning and insulting people.

No, it's morally correct. Plenty of conservatives support it, whom I am assuming are the butt of your little "joke."

And yet you attempted that very thing in your initial reply to me. You're a pot calling the kettle black.

That you composed a silly response?

I actually think that a smaller guerrilla force with less powerful weaponry can hold its own and even defeat stronger militaries, for the outcome of a...

Mae govannen, mellon nín.

You could, but owning a tank is an impractical means of self-defense. It would be hard to stow it in a drawer or a purse, for example. You can't drive...

Very well stated. In the other gun thread, the argument I gave in favor of retaining the constitutional right to bear arms is that this right is groun...

Your reply disappoints me.

She didn't say that or you had no such girlfriend?

This only reminds me that you never gave a satisfactory response to my post here: https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/115770 I don't thi...

As I have pointed out several times now, this commits the naturalistic fallacy. There are plenty of things that come naturally to one which it would b...

This is at odds with my impression, but I'm sure it's true for many people. Trying to turn the tables on me I see! I wouldn't say it's a bad thing. Bu...

I don't understand the reaction. Are lovers not also friends? In today's sexually bizarre world, I realize that people who hate each other often end u...

This explains nothing. It's just a declarative statement. Why is it incorrect? And what does romantic engagement depend on?

This describes SLX's contribution quite well.

I wouldn't say those are instincts, but even if they are, my point is that they, like romantic love, require justification beyond appealing to their b...