Legal evasion arguments are applied selectively to gun laws

Evidence

Senator Charles Schumer of New York acknowledged that this might still be possible, but noted that such a line of reasoning has never been applied to any other law: “We shouldn’t have laws because the bad people will get around them anyway” (Steinhauer, 2013b). — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 1319

Categorization

• CANDY: Short, quotable one-liner exposing the logical incoherence of an anti-regulation argument — good dinner party material.