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Logically Absurd

If it is true that the best protection from a bad guy with a gun . . . is a good guy with a gun, then shouldn’t we encourage or even require good guys to carry guns?

When some pathetic sicko shows up and shoots ten people on a subway platform, why didn’t nine of those people return fire, shooting the sicko?

In fact, wouldn’t schools be safer if Moms packed a pistol into every kid’s backpack?

A reductio ad absurdum is a method of proving the falsity of a premise by showing that its logical consequence is absurd or contradictory, often called a logically absurd conclusion.