Rio 2016: top American Olympic shooter Kim Rhode attacks gun control laws

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36. Right. Sure they are...

The gun-control advocates are simply responding to th gun lobby which will allow no discussion of any gun control measures at all.

Right. Sure they are.

This is a typical misrepresentation leveled by those who push for more and more restrictions but can never come out and say how much gun control will be enough. The assertion is issued as if there is no gun control at all, with the deliberate unspoken implication being exactly that.

I have no problem with the control advocates passing extreme restrictions on guns and ammo.

Of course you don't - you're one of them.

Doing so may serve to move the NRA et al off their "nothing or nothing" position.

This is yet another of the typical misrepresentations leveled at pro-gun posters. Spoken as if the nra is against ALL gun laws, which is historically, hilariously, demonstrably, a fantasy.

It does however, betray the reality of the anti-gun position:

"Any gun law previously passed counts as nothing, and for purposes of discussion does not exist unless under direct threat of repeal, in which case it will be characterized as the most important gun control in the world until the threat has passed. Individuals and groups offering so much as the slightest resistance to what we the gun control activists want right now, shall be characterized as 'against all gun control', 'extremists', 'absolutists' etc."

I'll take that trade off it results in a few lives being saved.

Trade offs are always easy when you're bartering with someone elses currency.