Tornado Alley (PROG)

[blackhawks]

What context makes the following acceptable? Start with the straw man argument. Who has argued such?

You will never live in a society when you have an armed citizenry and you won't have a single gun death. That is nonsense. It's drivel. But I am, I, I — I think it's worth it. I think it's worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights. That is a prudent deal. It is rational. Nobody talks like this. They live in a complete alternate universe."

What if he had to personally address those who lost children in school shootings or in any other mass shooting venue? I would hope one response would be that the right to life is one right the 2nd Amendment is imperfectly defending. If he opposed universal background checks, nationally to prevent the trafficking of guns from loose gun law states to cities, then he was wrong. If he thinks an assault weapon ban is not a good thing than he didn't know the history of the last ban on them.