Originally posted by Annoyed
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Originally posted by SoulReaver
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Originally posted by Annoyed
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Let me explain. No one serious is arguing that making it illegal to yell "fire" in a movie theater will end up leading to the end of free speech. You can't just claim a slippery slope here anymore than you can claim gun control is a slippery slope. So there, I gave you a counter example. You could find a better way to argue or we can throw endless counter examples.
BTW, 100 years ago government made it illegal to drink alcoholic beverages so no, it wasn't inconceivable that smoking would meet a similar fate 40 years ago.
Another issue, you weren't making a slippery slope argument, you're doing that now cause I pointed out your strawman argument. In any case, handguns are not rifles. Making rifle ownership regulated does not connect to owning handguns. Smoking public bans and joint housing bans are directly connected. You're using a logical fallacy here, false equivalency.
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