Posted on 12/06/2015 4:51:51 AM PST by HomerBohn
In its first front-page editorial since the end of the First World War, The New York Times editorial board advocated outright gun confiscation as the solution to end violence.
Friday’s above-the-fold piece headlined “The Gun Epidemic†called civilian gun ownership “a moral outrage and a national disgrace.â€
After 95 years of front-page silence, the Grey Lady’s editors chose this particular recurrent theme touted so often in President Obama’s rhetoric: A strange coincidence.
There is so much wrong with this strident, fear-mongering approach that conservative author Jonah Goldberg had no problem destroying it, despite being exhausted from travel and a few stiff drinks.
Apparently, the kind of ban the Times editors called for is already law in California. That didn’t stop the terrorists. But they want to go further than a simple ban.
The editorial flatly states, “Certain kinds of weapons, like the slightly modified combat rifles used in California, and certain kinds of ammunition, must be outlawed for civilian ownership.â€
That means confiscation.
Apart from tossing the Second Amendment into the trash, the editors at the Times didn’t seem to think through the implications of their position.
(See copy of front page and comments at link)
If the police won’t do it, Obama will issue executive orders to every federal agency and the military to do. And if they won’t do it, he’ll seek United Nations intervention.
The Judge and Hannity are the last two voices of sanity on FAUX.
Please, Democrats, do this! Make gun confiscation a "Contract with America"-type platform to run on.
In the end, gun control didn't work out too well for Little Bill.
Bill Munny made sure of that.
BS! Their whole newspaper is nothing but an editorial, cleverly disguised as news.
Free the budgies. If they love you they will stay.
You give them WAY too much credit...
“In its first front-page editorial since the end of the First World War”
The NYT has been nothing but front-page editorials for many years now.
They quit reporting actual news some decades ago.
First of all, no one at the Times is qualified to discuss morals or ethics. Second of all, no one at the Times has the courage to actually go out and confiscate anything. And lastly, buy stock in the manufacturer of body bags.
5.56mm
The enemy’s greatest weakness is overconfidence.
Like all Marxists, they believe in the Iron Laws of History, that history is linear with a positive slope, that, as Leonid Brezhnev put it, “the armies of socialism march in only one direction”.
They have made tremendous gains with Project Obama, but they have not consolidated them and they are at risk - quite enormous risk, actually - from the upcoming US electoral process.
There has been an awakening - have you felt it?
Yep
Just like they do 24/7/365
Just end the free press part. License reporters and tax printing presses and, say 10 cents, tax per word printed.
(I can hear it now, "But it's our God given right...")
I don't fear the NYT, I fear the liberal neighbor that voted for Obama...s/he is the danger to us. S/he is the one who would see something, but remain silent to be politically correct, endangering all of us. Muslims have a jihadi cancer in their midst...we have regressives in our neighborhoods...just as dangerous. They actually are a strange alliance and don't even know it. In CA the person who did not report something strange was a jihadi accomplice. So just as dangerous.
Only a bigger fool would take these knuckle-dragging troglodytes seriously.
The hoplophobes like to claim the Second Amendment protects muzzle-loading flintlocks, as those are the arms extant at the time the Constitution was written.
By that logic, we can respond that the First Amendment “press” clause protects only single-sheet manually-operated printing presses.
He should be asked “Do you advocate starting the confiscation with your own armed bodyguards?”.
The New York Times carried water for Stalin 80 years ago; now they’re simply doing the same for “our Stalin”.
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