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End the Gun Epidemic in America (New York Times)
NY Times via MSN ^ | 12/04/15 | THE EDITORIAL BOARD

Posted on 12/05/2015 2:36:41 AM PST by Libloather

**SNIP**

It is a moral outrage and a national disgrace that civilians can legally purchase weapons designed specifically to kill people with brutal speed and efficiency. These are weapons of war, barely modified and deliberately marketed as tools of macho vigilantism and even insurrection. America's elected leaders offer prayers for gun victims and then, callously and without fear of consequence, reject the most basic restrictions on weapons of mass killing, as they did on Thursday. They distract us with arguments about the word terrorism. Let's be clear: These spree killings are all, in their own ways, acts of terrorism.

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Certain kinds of weapons, like the slightly modified combat rifles used in California, and certain kinds of ammunition, must be outlawed for civilian ownership. It is possible to define those guns in a clear and effective way and, yes, it would require Americans who own those kinds of weapons to give them up for the good of their fellow citizens.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Editorial; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: america; banglist; epidemic; guns; nyt
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What better time than during a presidential election to show, at long last, that our nation has retained its sense of decency?

My rule of thumb - I NEVER allow any leftist to determine decency. These are the same folks who sell baby body parts for profit and call it a 'moral outrage' that someone gets in their way.

1 posted on 12/05/2015 2:36:41 AM PST by Libloather
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To: Libloather

Masking radical muslim terrorism


2 posted on 12/05/2015 2:38:51 AM PST by ronnie raygun
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To: Libloather

Funny how we are supposed to believe the athiest left about what the koran supposedly says and what muslims think.....


3 posted on 12/05/2015 2:39:50 AM PST by GraceG (Protect the Border from Illegal Aliens, Don't Protect Illegal Alien Boarders...)
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To: ronnie raygun

Leftys blame the tool and never the person cause they believe in the “noble savage” lie.


4 posted on 12/05/2015 2:42:43 AM PST by GraceG (Protect the Border from Illegal Aliens, Don't Protect Illegal Alien Boarders...)
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To: Libloather
End the Gun Epidemic in America (New York Times)

Solution: Burn your copy of the NYT! WaPo! Daily News! etc.....

5 posted on 12/05/2015 2:43:35 AM PST by Road Warrior ‘04 (Molon Labe! (Oathkeeper))
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To: Libloather

McVeigh parked his truck in front of the wrong building.

This hysterical screed reads like it was penned by a homosexual Marxist.


6 posted on 12/05/2015 2:43:52 AM PST by Rome2000 (SMASH THE CPUSA-SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS-CLOSE ALL MOSQUES)
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To: Libloather

If the NYTs wants to ban Bill of Rights to prevent these kinds of attacks, far more effective would be to ban the first amendment right to be Muslim in America. After all, no right should exist without reasonable regulation, I believe was their logic.

I’d bet at this moment that it wouldn’t be wise to take a national poll on whether banning Muslims is a reasonable regulation on the first amendment. My guess is the NYTs would be shocked, shocked I’d say, to find how just how un-PC the American public truly is.


7 posted on 12/05/2015 2:44:10 AM PST by ziravan (Buck the Establishment.)
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To: Libloather

What poor grammar and composition.


8 posted on 12/05/2015 2:52:39 AM PST by Tax-chick (Maximizing my cultural appropriation.)
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To: Libloather

Last I’d heard, 15 percent of the American population are licenced concealed carriers. Less than 1/10th of one percent of them break the law. Far less than the percentage of law enforcement personnel that break the law.

Yet, these shootings are OUR fault?!


9 posted on 12/05/2015 2:57:19 AM PST by RandallFlagg (With the things that are about to come to light. People might just need a little old-fashioned.)
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To: Libloather

To the Editortrix at the Venerable NYT:

I reserve my rights under the constitution, all of them.


10 posted on 12/05/2015 2:59:42 AM PST by urbanpovertylawcenter (the law and poverty collide in an urban setting and sparks fly)
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To: Libloather

End gun epidemic?????

Easy peasy.....Impeach Obama and defeat all democrat candidates at the polls............oh, and shut down the borders!


11 posted on 12/05/2015 3:08:01 AM PST by Forty-Niner
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To: Libloather

The NY Times once ran a story praising the luck of the German people who elected such a fine progressive leader as Adolph Hitler.


12 posted on 12/05/2015 3:09:30 AM PST by cripplecreek (Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.)
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To: Libloather

That’s enough already.

I’m going to Cabelas in the morning.


13 posted on 12/05/2015 3:09:35 AM PST by glock rocks (I don't always talk to liberals, but when I do, I order the large fries.)
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To: Libloather

I thought this Sulzman (sp?) dope said the Ol’ Grey Whore was supposed to start being more even handed politically. Wouldn’t know it. Just another liberal liar.


14 posted on 12/05/2015 3:11:57 AM PST by HeartlandOfAmerica (How can God bless a country that's BUTCHERED 53 million babies?? Almost as many as ALL killed inWWII)
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To: glock rocks

Heh!
I’m going to the weekend gun show to build another upper for my AR.
I think I’ll go with a 16” 6.5 Grendel.


15 posted on 12/05/2015 3:13:40 AM PST by RandallFlagg (With the things that are about to come to light. People might just need a little old-fashioned.)
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To: Libloather

Note the lead “mind-shaping” assumption that guns are specifically designed to kill people-—not to defend a person’s life and that of his loved ones against evil-intentioned humans-—but only to kill. This one-sided assumption derives from a mind not only in denial of its personal proclivity toward evil in myriad forms but ready to project its’ own evil outward onto inanimate guns, social constructions, private property, fossil fuels, and other people (scapegoats).


16 posted on 12/05/2015 3:16:08 AM PST by spirited irish
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To: Libloather

Dear New York Times,

No thank you.

And may you all die of painful, agonizing pancreatic cancer, shrieking for days and writhing on the ground, blood and spittle flying from your evil twisted mouths.

Love,

Laz


17 posted on 12/05/2015 3:18:20 AM PST by Lazamataz ( If they try firearm confiscation or gun registration, I go ballistic.)
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To: Libloather
The New York Times political ideology has destroyed the United States fabric to the point where terrorism is now occurring domestically, and now they want to disarm us and are outraged about it.

They're lunatics, nobody should buy the paper or tolerate them.

18 posted on 12/05/2015 3:18:25 AM PST by Vision (Obama is not a well man.)
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There it is in black and white, the Liberals end game, confiscation. That is what they have lusted for all along and are finally admitting.

We have a lawless president. We have a corrupt MSM that completely supports this lawless president. The same president who has purged our military while militarized our police forces. Now they want our guns — for our own safety of course.

They will get my guns barrel first.


19 posted on 12/05/2015 3:21:41 AM PST by Obadiah (Jeb! Because America needs more cowbell.)
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To: Libloather

Spree killings???
Can you get any more delusional?
The position taken by this screed
Is a mockery of everything our nation has held dear since its conception!!


20 posted on 12/05/2015 3:22:50 AM PST by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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