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sarin

(137 posts)
Mon Jan 14, 2013, 09:10 PM Jan 2013

...and Spoons make people fat [View all]

I hate this "logic" thrown around by the gun advocates. The false equivalency really bugs me. Obviously it's the person with the spoon who feeds themselves to the point that they gain weight (in an over simplified idea of this analogy) but the difference is this.

Where as a spoon can make its user fat, it cannot make someone else fat though that users use of the spoon.

This is not true for a gun. The user of a gun can kill a person, whether that person had anything to do with the gun.

Logic fails...

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