04-05-2013, 02:00 AM
Mac-A-Matic wrote:
[quote=deckeda]
The only puzzlement is how it would be used to further any gun restrictions. Black's question still stands --- people are upset here Obama's comment paints an unfair picture of guns but can't come up with a plausible scenario of how.
The president has been speaking on gun restrictions and bans for quite some time now, this is just another point in his program.
How does it paint an "unfair" picture of guns? By stating that the weapon used was an automatic weapon when those weapons are highly restricted and very tightly regulated - never mind the fact that an automatic weapon was not used in the commission of any of these white-on-white shootings....
If I understand you correctly, you're convinced Obama furthers gun restrictions by making guns appear worse than they are, by falsely attributing Lanza as using a more dangerous gun than he used or even, from a practical standpoint, could have used due to existing tougher regs on automatics.
Again I ask, how does this process work? Do people refer back to the speech and say, "Remember Lanza? He used an automatic weapon.' And more and more people do this, no one recognizes the obvious factual error and the next thing you know all guns are outlawed?
At what point does the falsehood become ineffective at helping further gun restrictions? Never? After a while? How about ... yesterday.