June 03, 2012

Tautologies of the world, unite! You have nothing to lose!

I was just reading this, and ran into the old saw, "When guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have guns."

I understand what that's trying to say, and in fact I'm sympathetic. You don't have to convince me.

But if you take it literally, it's a tautology. Only outlaws will have guns, because having guns would make them outlaws -- even if they aren't outlaws in any other way.

Posted by: Steven Den Beste in Weird World at 08:37 PM | Comments (2) | Add Comment
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1 It makes sens to look at it as a tautology that way.  Although I think the operative connection there is "Only" presuming that there are both lawful and "out"lawful owners at the beginning.

Oh, what am I doing.  Of course you know this.  Never mind.

What I'm waiting for is someone to take the "Asset Forfeiture" laws, whereby the police can determine that your money is criminal and take it away from you without trial (since the money is guilty, not you) and argue that if things can be guilty of a crime, that their gun should be charged with murder instead of them.

Posted by: Mauser at June 03, 2012 10:25 PM (cZPoz)

2 They don't have to unite, they have their own club.

Posted by: Mikeski at June 03, 2012 10:42 PM (1bPWv)

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