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Columnist Pushes for Passage Gun Control Laws Regardless of Effectiveness
AIM ^ | February 20, 2018 | Brian McNicoll

Posted on 02/20/2018 3:13:15 PM PST by detective

When shooting sprees occur, such as the events last week in Florida, it’s more important we just do something than it is that the response is timely or effective, according to columnist Jill Lawrence.

“As both sides in the gun debate mobilize for a possible second act on Capitol Hill, could we please retire the argument that taking step X on guns wouldn’t have prevented tragedy Y?” Lawrence wrote in 2013 in an article reproduced this week to try to sway the new Florida-inspired debate on gun control.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: 2ndamendment; banglist; florida; guns; jilllawrence; media; mediawingofthednc; nra; parkland; partisanmediashills; presstitutes; secondamendment
How many times do the media say we have to "do something?"

When intelligent and informed people patiently explain that what they want us to do would not have prevented the shooting, the liberal Democrat/media response is to throw a temper tantrum.

1 posted on 02/20/2018 3:13:15 PM PST by detective
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To: detective

DO SOMETHING!!

Dammit, didn’t you HEAR ME??

DO SOMETHING !!


2 posted on 02/20/2018 3:21:28 PM PST by A_Former_Democrat (Another Islamic terrorist event, and no “outrage” from the “Muslim community”. Again)
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To: detective

Liberals are controlled by their emotions, and hysteria is their default mode.


3 posted on 02/20/2018 3:23:06 PM PST by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)
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To: detective

The Democrat-Communists desperately need to have American citizens disarmed. They can not achieve their global communist agenda unless we are an unarmed population. They will do anything, say anything, spend anything and even kill people to achieve this aim. Make no mistake, they will do anything to disarm us. Law enforcement can not protect you or your family.

They are the most evil despicable people in the world, undeserving of life itself.

Where go one, we go all.


4 posted on 02/20/2018 3:30:10 PM PST by Lopeover ( The 2016 Election is about allegiance to the United States!)
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To: detective
Bringing back the assault weapon ban, the current flavor of the month, would not have stopped this. True, he used an AR 15, but he owned multiple guns at least some of which, based on the pictures I've seen, would not come under the ban.

If liberals really want to stop these shootings, why don't they propose something that would work? Armed security, screening and access control measures, anyone?

Or are they less interested in saving lives than playing politics with the dead?

5 posted on 02/20/2018 3:30:39 PM PST by colorado tanker
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To: detective
Pass laws that ban all guns and there will be no more gun crimes. That's how we solved the drug problem.

Saw a poster like that on Tucker Carlson's program.

6 posted on 02/20/2018 3:31:51 PM PST by Bernard Marx
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To: detective
The point of the gun-control advocates' pushing for more firearms restrictions is to lead to gun confiscation, along with the Second Amendment being either gutted by the Supreme Court or formally repealed.

They don't care about whether the restrictions protect anyone. It's all about disarming the People.

7 posted on 02/20/2018 3:39:12 PM PST by Repeal 16-17 (Let me know when the Shooting starts.)
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To: detective

Jill Lawrence, your a BLOODY IDIOT!!!!!


8 posted on 02/20/2018 3:41:07 PM PST by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country)
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To: A_Former_Democrat
Trump: ok I will do something responsible and comprehensive that works. The Left: No , you must do everything that we want. Me:gth!
9 posted on 02/20/2018 3:53:40 PM PST by cowboyusa
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To: A_Former_Democrat

Okay, here's what I'm going to do. Equally as effective as anything else anyone has proposed, plus I get some COLDCUTS! WOOOOO!

10 posted on 02/20/2018 4:02:26 PM PST by chris37 (Take a week off racist >;-)
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To: detective

Just make it illegal to shoot kids in school. You could call it a “gun free zone”. That would be just as effective.


11 posted on 02/20/2018 4:07:21 PM PST by bk1000 (I stand with Trump)
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To: detective

To the emotional and hysterical Jill Lawrence who wants “something to be done...”

I agree with her 100%.

When a bail bondsman tells the FBI that a kid just posted on social media and stated that he wanted to be a professional school shooter, the FBI or the local police should have arrested him for making terrorist threats and made sure he didn’t have access to guns.

But n-o-o-o, Jill wants to punish millions of people who had absolutely nothing to do with the crime. Idiots.


12 posted on 02/20/2018 4:09:47 PM PST by july4thfreedomfoundation (No DACA Caca....Send the Nightmares home. "Americans are Dreamers, too." President Trump)
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To: july4thfreedomfoundation

Yes, why wasn’t that “something” done?

But let’s blame Trump and the NRA instead


13 posted on 02/20/2018 4:15:03 PM PST by A_Former_Democrat (Another Islamic terrorist event, and no “outrage” from the “Muslim community”. Again)
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To: detective
Here’s what a modern day “journalist” (a.k.a. sh*t for brains moron) looks like. I’m guessing there’s a better than even chance that she has a “pussy” hat in her coat closet...

Jill Lawrence

14 posted on 02/20/2018 4:30:20 PM PST by Sicon ("All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." - G. Orwell)
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To: colorado tanker

What they want is abolition of the 2nd amendment ( and likely much of the First as well) and an unarmed citizenry like Japan.


15 posted on 02/20/2018 4:31:48 PM PST by xkaydet65
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To: detective

After all, what is government for if it’s not to pass laws that are essentially meaningless virtue posturing?


16 posted on 02/20/2018 6:13:43 PM PST by IronJack (A)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; ...
Thanks detective.

17 posted on 02/21/2018 5:01:43 AM PST by SunkenCiv (www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
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