{"id":2884,"date":"2024-02-21T10:33:30","date_gmt":"2024-02-21T10:33:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/?p=2884"},"modified":"2024-02-21T10:33:30","modified_gmt":"2024-02-21T10:33:30","slug":"the-kansas-city-category-error","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/?p=2884","title":{"rendered":"The Kansas City Category Error"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure><a href=\"https:\/\/cdn0.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/24045833721915-copy.jpg\" data-caption=\"The Kansas City Chiefs celebrate during their victory rally at Union Station in Kansas City, Mo., Wednesday, Feb. 14, 2024. The Chiefs defeated the San Francisco 49ers Sunday in the NFL Super Bowl 58 football game. (AP Photo\/Charlie Riedel)\"><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"464\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn0.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/24045833721915-copy-696x464.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn0.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/24045833721915-copy-696x464.jpg 696w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/24045833721915-copy-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/24045833721915-copy-700x467.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/24045833721915-copy-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/24045833721915-copy-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/24045833721915-copy-1068x712.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/24045833721915-copy-630x420.jpg 630w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/24045833721915-copy-560x373.jpg 560w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/24045833721915-copy.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" alt=\"\" title=\"Super Bowl Chiefs Parade Football\"\/><\/noscript><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Kansas City Chiefs celebrate during their victory rally at Union Station in Kansas City, Mo., Wednesday, Feb. 14, 2024. The Chiefs defeated the San Francisco 49ers Sunday in the NFL Super Bowl 58 football game. (AP Photo\/Charlie Riedel)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Influential people with anti-gun views often want to \u201cwade into the debate\u201d after a big shooting. They\u2019d have us believe that they are apolitical people who were above or outside of the debate, but because something that happened was so terrible, it merits them taking the highly unusual step and perhaps enduring some personal sacrifice.<\/p>\n<p>But, if you do a quick search, most of the celebrities who act like this have a history of doing it. The truth is, they\u2019re part of the anti-gun movement, they do this after every high-profile shooting and they\u2019ll do it again.<\/p>\n<p>Want some solid proof? Just look at the talking points. If they were a fresh voice entering the debate, they\u2019d bring some fresh ideas with them. But, they say the same thing all of the other celebrities do. So, it makes sense to point out that they\u2019re being disingenuous so that people can see that they\u2019re faking it.<\/p>\n<p>But, after the Kansas City Super Bowl parade shooting, there\u2019s another valuable point to be made: These \u201cI\u2019m not normally political\u201d celebs don\u2019t want to talk about the factual circumstances of the shooting itself.<\/p>\n<p>The fact is, this was a gang shooting, not a mass shooting. While every life lost is a tragedy, we can\u2019t treat all deaths by bullet the same way if we want to productively solve the problem. Laws that might prevent suicide differ from laws that might dissuade criminals and laws that could dissuade a suicidal mass shooter. When we try to \u201cone size fits all\u201d the problem, we don\u2019t arrive at useful conclusions.<\/p>\n<p>But, as we know, the anti-gun movement isn\u2019t after solutions. They\u2019re after guns. To admit that the shooting in Kansas City was a gang fight and not a mass murder situation would tip the audience off. Anybody with even half a lick of common sense knows that gang members who were already carrying guns illegally aren\u2019t going to be stopped by any new anti-gun laws. All that would accomplish would be to burden good people while leaving gang members\u2019 guns alone.<\/p>\n<p>So, to avoid this awkwardness and keep people from seeing that they\u2019d made a category error (aka a \u201cfallacy of composition\u201d), these celebs go straight to things like this:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">This \ud83e\udd2c is SAD man! Kids are being shot and somebody didn\u2019t come home tonight. We cannot allow this to be normal. We cannot ourselves to become numb and chalk it up to \u201cjust another shooting in America\u201d and reduce people in statistics and then move on tmrw. <\/p>\n<p>This is a SERIOUS\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Justin Reid (@JustinqReid) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JustinqReid\/status\/1757925339060146359?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 15, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>To categorize a problem properly and come up with a real solution, we first have to look at the whole problem. We can\u2019t look at it from one angle through somebody else\u2019s glasses if we want to see clearly enough to know what\u2019s even going on. But, we can\u2019t expect a guy who said \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JustinqReid\/status\/1112682590605959168\">I hate guns dawg<\/a>\u201d in the past to give us an honest opinion on the solution. The hate is all he knows, and it\u2019s all he wants fans to know.<\/p>\n<p>Blinding us to the real situation with thoughts about children and victims might seem like the empathetic thing to do on the surface, but stopping there keeps our minds on the surface instead of digging deeper.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/the-kansas-city-category-error\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Kansas City Chiefs celebrate during their victory rally at Union Station in Kansas City, Mo., Wednesday, Feb. 14, 2024. The Chiefs defeated the San Francisco 49ers Sunday in the NFL Super Bowl 58 football game. (AP Photo\/Charlie Riedel) Influential people with anti-gun views often want to \u201cwade into the debate\u201d after a big shooting. 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