A surefire (ha) way to prevent any kind of constructive discourse is to put words in other people’s mouths, to exaggerate, and to build a straw man.
I see this constantly. “I can’t possibly even try to actually understand an opposing view because it feels all icky inside and I have some reasons to think my way, therefore my woefully insufficient, intentionally laughable guesses and caricatures must be their actual reasoning, and that’s just ridiculous! They must be stupid to think like I am thinking they think!”
You think you’re being edgy and clever, knowing others better than they know themselves, when in actual fact you’re presenting yourself as a complete moron who knows nothing - never mind about others, but not even about yourself.
UrGod, you really want to punctuate the above with a slippery-slope fallacy? Why don’t I turn that around and claim that next you will want it to be a basic human right for everyone to own a nuclear weapon. I mean, nuclear weapons don’t kill people, if you misuse or abuse your nuclear weapon that’s your fault as a person.
Perhaps you want to claim that intent or negligence with a gun is just the same as intent or negligence with a knife, or a spoon!? Oops, I dropped my spoon, it’s dirty now. Oops, I dropped my gun, it went off and killed my 5 year old child - both scenarios happen all the time. Any rational person realises there is a line where gambling with inevitable intent or negligence with something that can be used to harm is no longer a safe bet. Other more developed countries have realised that you draw the line before you get to guns, and they get violence with other weapons with much less collateral damage and gun violence all but disappears. WEIRD. It’s like actual facts mean something and making up a ridiculous position that others don’t actually hold means fuck all.
Yes, you did miss anything. You missed everything.