Re: Kiddie exercises his right to bear arms

While I was fishing in the dull canal, Jeffrey C. Dege crept
softly through the vegetation, mumbling - 

> On 25 Nov 2003 19:26:53 GMT, Carl Nisarel

>>While I was fishing in the dull canal, hwhit crept softly
>>through the vegetation, dragging - 
>>
>>> IMO (OPINION) Eddie Eagle is a good program.  it
>>> basically codifies the common sense knowledge surrounding
>>> guns. 
>>
>>It fails to 'codify' common sense about how children
>>behave. 
> 
> It works perfectly well in an environment where guns are
> treated as inanimate objects, rather than as active forces
> for evil. 
> 
> The single most important aspect of teaching kids to be
> safe with guns is to remove the mystery of them - to make
> them an ordinary sort of thing like a lawnmower or a
> chainsaw.  In other words, to counter all the crap that the
> media is endlessly spewing about them. 
> 
> And then kids will treat them like perfectly ordinary
> things. 

Leave it up to Dege to illustrate why gunners don't 
understand how children behave.

-- 
Argumentum ad ignorantiam
Examples: Since you cannot prove that ghosts do not exist, 
they must exist.
Stephen Downes Guide to the Logical Fallacies