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flamin lib

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4. At the core of the gun rights movement is absolutism.
Sun Feb 15, 2015, 10:14 PM
Feb 2015

Gun control of any kind means confiscation of all guns, period. Universal background checks are a prelude to registration which is a prelude to confiscation. Smart gun technology is a prelude to confiscating all old style guns. Tagants are meant to track people who buy gun powder for reloading so their guns can be confiscated. Regulating high capacity magazines for semi auto guns is the first step to confiscating all guns. Regulating military style semi auto rifles with high capacity magazines with high cyclic rates is the first step to taking all guns from everyone.

It is all argumentum extremis, a logical fallacy based on "if anything, then everything". The camel's nose under the tent argument. Fostered by the NRA beginning in the late '70s, absorbed, regurgitated and taken as a basic truth by all who are seduced by the high priests of gun nuttery.

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