Wow.

JTD, that argument would apply to getting rid of speed limits, and any other law, for that matter, since they don't always stop the activity they seek to stop or prevent deaths.

Too many drunk drivers? Clearly the penalties and laws aren't good enough to stop them, so we may as well just get rid of them.

Laws against robbing banks clearly haven't stopped bank robberies...may as well get them off the books, too.

This is the exact opposite of the "straw man" argument.

A Straw Man argument makes up a problem that doesn't actually exist and argues against that one, instead of a real one.

This is the Iron Man argument...it claims that the problem has no perfect solution, so we need not do anything at all about it. Check how everyone in the scientific world feels about man's effect on global climate change, and how politicians choose to deal with it for an example of how this one works.

The fact is that the NRA is blaming the problem on people, and then saying it's an unsolvable problem, so what we really need are more guns and more shooters.

Fish on...

Todd