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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Freedom@AnyCost" data-source="post: 2199160" data-attributes="member: 29628">For arguments sake, assume every single one of them - 100% of 34. In other words, it doesn't matter. It is a silly question. It's like arguing certain long guns made by a specific manufacturer should be illegal by asking how many of the 300-400 deaths are caused by black guns, and of those how many are made by manufacturer X. ALL long gun deaths combined are less than the number of deaths caused by hammers. That is all a logical person needs to know to realize the terror they experience at the sight of a rifle is not rational. Divide 34 by the population of the U.S. (approx 300 million), the result (.00000011333) is the maximum risk you face on an annual basis. You are about 1,250 times more likely to die in a car accident or 1.32 times more likely to be killed by lightning. Are you terrified at the sight of a car, a thunder storm, rifle, a hammer, a swimming pool, a bucket of water, packing materials? Do you think any of these things should be "Banned"? They all kill more people per year than ALL dog breeds combined. If one can step back and think rationally for a second, It become obvious the killer dog stories and the mass fear that results is one pixel in a very large picture of a national tragedy - we are capable of believing anything if repeated often enough by the right people, no matter how ridiculous. The duped will even argue against reason once they become personally invested in the lie."If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State (media) can shield the people from the political, economic and / or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the state (media) to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the state (media)."- Joseph Goebbels - If people can be duped about something so plainly ludicrous as a specific breed of dog or a certain style of firearm being mass killers without thinking twice about it, kind of makes one wonder what other oft repeated lies we hold as truths and how many disastrous decisions might we have have made on the basis of those lies.Welcome to 1984.</blockquote>

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