Quote from AAAintheBeltway:
>>You have employed the device of sophistry known as the fallacy of false equivalence<<
I would disagree. The argument against banning guns is twofold. One, we have a constitutional right to keep and bear arms, a right the Supreme Court has defined to encompass weapons in common useage for defensive purposes. Two, we see a gun ban or onerous regulation as ineffective in achieving the stated goal of reducing violence.
The analogy to cars is more a reduction to absurdity argument. You seem well educated, so you can supply the Latin. The point being that you cannot ban everything in modern life that has potential for harm. Cars are far from the only example. I detailed a long list in another thread of risky endeavors that liberals protect, despite Obama's invocation of the "if it saves only one life" standard.
