The Kind-Hearted Smart Aleck

I've seen several posts made on Facebook by self-described liberals which say something like the following: "It's very simple. Making guns illegal will not stop gun violence. But making abortions illegal will stop abortions. Get it?" The post is attempting to poke fun at hard-core conservatives' beliefs - those whom don't feel that any stricter gun laws will ward off gun violence any, but that outlawing abortion will prevent any such procedures from taking place. I can partially understand where these liberals are coming from in attempting to make such a comparison, however, I think it's the wrong one to make, especially if they're trying to persuade people that stricter gun laws are needed in this country. The problem is in the absolutism of such comments. This has been an attempted arguing point by those on the far-right, saying, "Do you think drug laws still got broken after we passed them? Yeah. Well, same thing with guns. If gun laws ge...