"Guilt by association" and broad generalizations are just some of the many tactics used by GCCs.Let's take a look at a few recent tweets by our friends at the VPC and see those tactics at work.
FL CCW on trial for murder. Wore body armor, CCW permit on chain on his neck as he illegally towed cars according... fb.me/161rpwdLB
— Violence Policy Cent (@VPCinfo) February 22, 2012
KS:CCW accidentally shoots his nephew in the foot w/ 9mm handgun at the shopping mall. fb.me/1aqVNdnXj
— Violence Policy Cent (@VPCinfo) February 29, 2012
WA: CCW suffering from delusions shoots and paralyzes neighbor in dispute over a BB gun. fb.me/1J7Cp8lQ2
— Violence Policy Cent (@VPCinfo) March 5, 2012
You'll notice all these tweets are about shootings involving CCW holders.FL:Family of teen killed by CCW say CCW had violent past, info withheld by police. fb.me/VOuSGGpp
— Violence Policy Cent (@VPCinfo) March 12, 2012
Four shootings.
The unspoken implication, of course, is that if one CCW holder commits a shooting, then it must follow that all CCW holders will commit shootings.
After all, here are four prime examples, right?
Right?
But let's not forget some math that we did not too long ago.
We found there are 6,972,652 concealed carriers in the U.S.
So because 4 concealed carriers committed shootings, the other 6,972,648 will commit shootings?
Really?
You, the VPC, are able to forsee more than 6 million people shooting up the country?
Wow.
You must have some god-like powers to be able to tell the future.
No, Folks.
What the VPC is doing is nothing more than generalizing and using guilt by association.
It's as slimy as saying if one black male or one Hispanic male commits a robbery, then it must follow that all black males or all Hispanic males will commit robberies.
If we then follow that train of logic, it must mean that Colin Powell, being a black male, has either committed a robbery in the past or will commit a robbery at some point in the future.
Logic train wreck?
Hell yes.
(photo: Wikimedia Commons)
2 comments:
Since when does a CCW guarantee that a person is perfectly sane and will never, ever act outside the law?
It is statistically a good indicator of someone being responsible, but it is not a perfect seal of approval.
Sorry, we have police who have been sworn to protect the public and some of them commit heinous crimes.
We have priests who have pledged their life to God and some of them have done horrible things.
We have soldiers that pledge their honor and are trained methodically and some may frag their officers.
We can find examples of groups of people that have passed all sorts of tests, criteria, and so on and at some later date they do very bad things.
All we can do is punish those who break the rules, but when they do the crime. We don't have pre-crime from Minority Report.
The critical thing that was noted is that they can only scrape up a few abuses which does not make the case. You always have to compare the numerator to the denominator and then their argument shows how insignificant it is.
@Braden: Agree, agree, agree.
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