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> His statement is meant to justify the obviously un-needed deaths of children as a necessary evil for Americans to have a "God given right" to own guns.

And this is not a basis for concluding that he was morally wrong to say it.

Unless you feel the same way about everything else that causes preventable deaths.

(Note that the quote says nothing about children. This is a dishonest emotional plea.)



Many shooters choose schools as their crime scenes, to the extent that there's even a term for it: school shooting. Acknowledging facts isn't a "dishonest emotional plea."


This is irrelevant to the fact that Kirk did not mention children in the quote.


That's irrelevant to the fact that Kirk was talking about school shootings.




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