There
is one debate which is particularly prone to being warped by
politically-motivated myths: that on gun control. In addition, any fair
observer would have to conclude that these myths are particularly
prevalent on one side of the debate. Gun control activists don’t seem to
know a lot about the way that guns actually work, and are worryingly
susceptible to their own propaganda.
You
could argue that this is not their fault: many people who are
vehemently anti-gun have never had the opportunity or need to fire one,
and so it’s natural they don’t know much about them. Their only contact
with the gun control debate comes in those moments immediately after a
school massacre. They forget that, every day, hundreds of thousands of
gun owners use their weapons responsibly, and lock them up safely at the
end of the day.
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Articles: Myth vs. Reality in Gun Debates
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