Vice President Joe Biden said today that if an executive order on gun control saves only one life, then it’s worth it.
By that logic, if it only saves one life, we should ban cars.
If it only saves one life, we should ban peanuts.
If it only saves one life, we should ban building things.
If it only saves one life, we should ban sports.
If it only saves one life, we should ban fishing.
If it saves only one life, we should ban electricity. Who wants to break the news to Mother Nature?
If it only saves one life, we should ban alcoholic beverages.
If it only saves one life, we should ban hammers.
If it only saves one life, we should ban knives.
If it only saves one life, we should ban coffee tables.
If it only saves one life, we should ban travel, and mountains.
If it only saves one life, we should ban subway trains.
If it only saves one life, we should ban passenger aircraft.
If it only saves one life, we should ban water.
If it only saves one life, we should ban sleep.
If it only saves one life, we should consider banning everything but sitting around. Unfortunately, even that can kill you.
If it only saves one life, we should ban living.
Well you can prove scientifically that nobody who has not lived has ever died.
Further, nobody not living can die.
And of course by inference everybody living will die.
Therefore the sum total of empirical evidence is that, as an absolute, living causes death.
(What makes that really bad is that as absurd as it is, that is still better science than that used to promote AGW.)
If it only saves one life, we should ban Biden thinking on his own.
Your definition of independent thinking implicitly sets a very low bar, sir.
Cell phones, obviously, smart phones particularly = distracted driving. Ban ‘em all!
If it only saves one life, let me live it as a blonde…
Anyone else remember when the left said that the deliberate murder of 3,000 men, women and children, the injuring of thousands more, and the destruction of billions of dollars in property was just something we had to endure as the price of freedom?
Remember when the left recited Franklin’s line about giving up liberty to purchase safety endlessly?
Remember when the left railed about every comment critical of Islamic theology, as if expressing your distaste for sharia was a call to lynch anyone with dusky skin?
Anyone know what happened to those sentiments? Were they just their screeching points to try to paralyze us in the face of terrorism?
we would have banned Ted Kennedy
What about the CAFE standards?
This Administration has already demonstrated their reverence for “saving life” with their:
Rules of engagement
Fast and Furious and
Benghazi
IPAB with Emanual/Berwick philosophy
Financial largess to Planned Parenthood
Do we need more to enlighten us?
In spite of frequent case studies to the contrary the left simply refuses to recognize that the presence of a firearm in the hands of a good person is a potent force for the prevention of harm.
It’s an unfortunate fact of life that the police seldom arrive in time to prevent a crime, most often all they can do is make a report, collect evidence, perhaps eventually catch the criminal responsible, but long after the damage to individual lives is over and done with.
So, what is your answer when their suggested “common sense” gun control saves one life, but costs ten? What will our leaders say or do when crime rates rise as they have in every country that imposes strict gun control. What will happen when honest citizens must live in fear of assault or rape or murder both on the public streets and in their own homes? The leaders won’t worry for they will still have their armed bodyguards while the rest of us cower in fear. And like they always to they’ll tell us how much worse it would have been if they hadn’t done something.
If it saves just one life, all gun laws should be banned.
(illustrating the absurd with absurdity)
If it saves only one life, why didn’t you ban ted kennedy?
“Nonsense. If the murder of twelve innocent people can help save one human life, it will have been worth it.”
- Dr. Necessiter, “The Man With Two Brains”