Posted on 01/02/2015 8:56:12 AM PST by rktman
“There are many issues—the overwhelming majority—on which we need an ongoing public ‘conversation.’ On a few, we don’t. Gun control stops gun violence. Gun possession does not deter crime; it merely makes it more lethal. Making these inarguable truths into necessary law takes the work of persuasion and legislation and litigation. The mental work finished, the moral work goes on, often in modest invisibility. Every day, something good happens at the state or community level that makes getting guns a little harder—and keeps families a little safer. That it might happen a little faster is a rational hope, and a proper holiday wish.”
(Excerpt) Read more at thetruthaboutguns.com ...
The left says, "What's mine is mine - what's yours is negotiable."
“Gun control stops gun violence. Gun possession does not deter crime; it merely makes it more lethal. Making these inarguable truths into necessary law takes the work of persuasion and legislation and litigation.”
Just like man-made global warming is settled science.
-- If anything, they tend to make a sniffy point of discriminating actual machine guns from mere semi-automatic ones, among them the Bushmaster. (Back in the twenties, the availability of the tommy gun to gangsters meant that the police were often brutally out-gunned.)
BTW - the “mental work” at the New Yorker, while not finished, was ended long ago.
More like reflexive knee-jerking.
It ain’t just their knees they’re jerking. :>}
How can you finish something that has never been started?
No wonder this moron writes for the New Yorker. Probably spent his entire life in Manhattan, which explains his myopia mental irrationality.
By the way, I didn’t know there ever WAS any “mental work” there.
- said Adam Gopnik. Interesting coincidence: "gopnik" roughly means a street mugger in Russian, who would obviously prefer unarmed victims.
This is the typical leftist tactic of framing the conversation in terms like “ I think we can all agree on....” and that their position is the only rational one.
Theirs is not one of negotiation...it is “how can I get you to surrender” to my wishes.
What is in fact totally undeniable, is that the better armed are the law abiding citizens, the greater the deterrent to the lawless thugs.
Of course, the cruelty of the wish to deny other people the right to defend themselves, must not be over-looked. The campaign to disarm law-abiding citizens can never be considered to be kindly motivated; the pretense that it is, has chilling implications. Those parroting the slogans of those pretending otherwise are analogous to the political cadres chanting allegiance to the Government, in a 1934 Nazi rally.
William Flax
“The mental work is done” means “I’m not going to bother thinking about it anymore.” I’m guessing that mental work was done long ago.
Can you name one place where gun control is effective in controlling gun violence? Can you name one place where gun possession has not reduced crime?
Anyway, the second amendment is not about crime prevention, hunting, collecting, sharp shooting. It is about defending oneself from others, especially an overreaching Federal Government.
Gopnik calls himself a “Canadian-American”, no surprise there.
Didn’t know what “gopnik” meant in Russian - thanks for the info. Fluent?
I have seldom seen a more counter-factual statement than the one you quoted. Indeed,that’s exactly why we need to keep posting malicious, evil drivel like this pro-criminal piece.
Guilty.
Actual apples from mere oranges.
What sort of verbal flimflammery admits that one thing is not another, while equating them at the same time?
Also, Freedom Group should pay rent for being in liberals' heads with "the Bushmaster".
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