Liberals love to come up with bad analogies to justify their unconstitutional gun control agenda. They compare guns to cars and say since you need a license to drive a car you should need one to own a firearm. They compare guns to abortions and say since states can regulate baby killing they should be able to regulate firearms. Those are dumb, but nothing compared to what Think Progress came up with. The liberal website compared guns to lettuce and said since E. Coli tainted romaine lettuce can be recalled, so to should firearms.
This is a real headline from Think Progress: Romaine lettuce is too dangerous to be in stores, but guns are still available 24 hours per day
Are there 24-hour gun stores? I doubt it, but that’s hardly the dumbest thing about this article. This is the dumbest thing:
On Thanksgiving Day 2018, Americans couldn’t buy romaine lettuce because of a CDC recall linked to an E. Coli outbreak. But even though gun violence is so mundane that a shooting at a mall in Alabama Thursday evening barely made national news, guns were still freely available at stores like Walmart across the country.
See, the thing is, Americans have a Constitutional right to keep and bear arms, while the right to eat tainted produce is not specifically protected by an amendment. This is something Think Progress reluctantly admits to, but in a seriously wrong-headed liberal way:
While firearm ownership within the context of a well-regulated militia is protected by the Constitution’s Second Amendment and there is no constitutional protection for any vegetable, much less lettuce, the Bill of Rights was written when slow-loading muskets made the idea of a mass shooting an improbable nightmare. The technological upgrades in the almost 250 years since then have allowed carnage to unfold in emergency rooms across the country.
No, actually firearm ownership is protected in the context that it’s an individual right that shall not be infringed. The Supreme Court DC v. Heller decision reaffirmed the 2nd Amendment as being an individual right that is not tied to membership in a militia or the military.
Liberals like to argue that our Founding Fathers, who wrote the Bill of Rights, couldn’t have possibly imagined modern firearms. That may be true but they could imagine a tyrannical government trying to oppress the people, which is why they included the 2nd Amendment.
The Think Progress analogy gets even dumber with this comparison:
The Centers for Disease Control issued a food safety alert on Tuesday afternoon, urging Americans to refrain from eating, and retailers from selling, any romaine lettuce, “until we learn more about the outbreak.” Five people died from an E. coli outbreak in June, and nearly two hundred people got sick.
On Thanksgiving Day, after the federal government had taken swift action to protect citizens from pathogen-laden romaine leaves, one male teen suspect in a Birmingham, Alabama mall allegedly shot and injured two others, including a 12-year-old girl. He was pursued by police, shot, and killed. Those were not the only casualties caused by guns that day.
Well, it certainly looks like the lettuce killed more people than the shooting in Alabama. 5 dead from E. Coli while the only fatality in Alabama was the shooter and he died in a justifiable homicide. 200 were sickened by the lettuce, while only two were injured by the gun. If this comparison were even remotely relevant, which it is not, it still looks like the romaine is the more dangerous of the two.
Besides the Constitutional issue, there are more reasons why this is an insanely stupid comparison. The government didn’t ban the sale of lettuce or outlaw the private possession of it; they simply recommended that people don’t eat it because it could be dangerous. The government also recommends that people don’t kill themselves or others with firearms and frowns upon people using guns to commit crimes.
Also, the lettuce recall was voluntary and based on a potentially dangerous flaw with the product. The government has never recalled lettuce that worked properly as it was designed for. Think Progress is trying to argue that since tainted lettuce can be recalled, so to should normally functioning firearms and that’s moronic.
