Sunday, May 20, 2018

foolish consistency hobgoblin


Seems to me that to say that we don't need new gun laws because criminals don't follow the law anyway, and then to argue that if we had prayer and Bible in schools, we wouldn't have mass shootings is contradictory. If a criminal doesn't obey regular laws, why would we think that they would be changed by rote recitation of the Lord's Prayer and posting the Ten Commandments in schools? But then there is Ralph Waldo Emerson's line, "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds."

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