"My teacher told me guns kill people...
I told her my pencil failed my math exam."
#LegislationUS1791ConstAmdt2RightToBearArms
#TheoryInstrumentalism
#ReasoningFallacyReductioAdAbsurdum
Context "Myth: Criminals will always find a way to get their hands on a gun.
Fact: Laws like background checks stop gun sales to criminals every day. Since 1994, these laws have blocked more than 4 million gun sales to people who could not legally own guns."
https://www.everytown.org/debunking-gun-myths-at-the-dinner-table/
Supplementary
#IRLAnthropologistBrunoLatour "Each artifact has its script, its 'affordance,' its potential to take hold of passersby and force them to play roles in its story. By contrast, the sociological version of the NRA renders the gun a neutral carrier of will that adds nothing the action, playing the role of an electrical conductor, good and evil flowing through it effortlessly. ...
Reversing the dogma of moralism, the materialists insist that we are what we have - what we have in our hands, at least. ...
For the NRA, one's moral state is a Platonic essence: One is born a good citizen or a criminal. Period. As such, the NRA account is moralist-what matters is what you are, not what you have" (Bruno Latour, 1994, p.31). Latour, B. (1994). 'On Technical Mediation Philosophy, Sociology, Genealogy.' Common Knowledge 3(2).
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#TheoryOfAffordances
#TheoryPsychologySchemaTheory
#AdvocacyUSNationalRifleAssociationNRA
#TheoryPhysicalismOrMaterialism
#TheoryInstrumentalism
#IRLPhilosopherPlato
#TheoryDeterminismFatalistic
#MagazineForbesTheodoreMcDarrah "You are different with a gun in your hand; the gun is different with you holding it. You are another subject because you hold the gun; the gun is another object because it has entered into a relationship with you."
https://www.forbes.com/sites/teddymcdarrah/2021/03/29/how-a-gun-changes-you-a-philosophical-look-at-gun-control/
Addendum this meme is
#MetaphorDeceitFallacious in the way that it seeks to reduce arguments about the responsibilities of gun ownership to materialist conditions of 'gun/pencil as neutral carrier' e.g.
#TheoryInstrumentalismAGunIsJustATool - circumventing criticism (as a kind of
#MetaphorDeceitBaitAndSwitch) as
#ReasoningFallacyStrawman argument, which
#MetaphorDeceitDisingenuous.ly sidesteps authentic criticism that guns sit within a socio-cultural frame i.e.
#EpistemologySociallyConstructedKnowledge and are therefore not
#PleaNeutrality.al.