The U.S. is the most violent of first-world nations? What is the U.K then, chopped liver? Its violent crime rate is much higher than ours. Other "first-world" nations also make us look good. This is why people keep saying "gun crime" instead of "all crime" or "violent crime." It's just a tactic to sometimes twist the figures in their favor.
Jon Stewart is a great comedian, but obviously not a logician. In order to back up his claim that gun control might work, he noted that regulating alcohol abuse works: "
No, but we do enact stricter blood-alcohol limits, raise the drinking age, ramp up enforcement penalties and charge bartenders who serve drunks, and launch huge public awareness campaigns to stigmatize the dangerous behavior in question."
It's interesting to note that nobody seems to be against regulating the abuse of firearms. All agree that the shooting of innocents must be penalized, for example. Regulating the objects that are abused, however, is a different matter. I wonder why Stewart didn't cite alcohol prohibition in defense of his desired gun regulations. It worked so well, right? Didn't it?
It's also funny that he claims the Second Amendment only protects muskets while he exercises his First Amendment rights using television.
Since everyone enjoys watching television instead of actually reading, here's another good one:
Ben Shapiro and Piers Morgan
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Originally Posted by Lexical
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Oh! nvm, sorry for the derp.
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Yeah, Lexical, it's called sarcasm. Sadly, I think many won't get it.