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Esquire Editor Wants to Ban All Guns
newsbusters.org ^ | 5/20/2018 | P.J. Gladnick

Posted on 05/21/2018 9:21:29 AM PDT by rktman

Liberals always seem to be declaring they only want bans or restrictions on certain types of guns. Added to that is their declaration of support for the Second Amendment. However, once in a while, one of those liberals lets their mask drop and makes their true intention known.

Such a person is the editor-at-large Dave Holmes of Esquire magazine who flat out declared in the wake of the school shootings in Texas on Friday that he wants to ban all guns. Here is Holmes saying what most other liberals are careful to keep under wraps in Okay, Now I Actually Do Want To Take Your Guns.

Hey there, NRA:

Listen, I know the moments after a gunman opens fire in a school are hectic for you. You have to get your talking points together, you have to mentally prepare to debate a traumatized yet sensible child, you have to look at yourself in the mirror and practice saying that more guns would have made the situation less deadly. It’s a busy time! And since we are always either in the moments after or the moments before a mass shooting, you’re pretty much always busy, I have noticed!

Anyway, I just wanted to drop you a line and let you know that I now actually do want to take your guns.

All of your guns.

Right now.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Government; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: 1a; 2a; banglist; bloat; commies
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To: rktman

Unfortunately, emotional responses to DO SOMETHING often do more harm than good. 

In this case, those pushing for more unconstitutional restrictions on gun ownership and use are all to happy to inflict harm on others with their emotional response. 
The author likely does not own any guns or see any use for them.

So, he sees no harm to banning them, restricting them, confiscating them, trashing the Second Amendment, and eliminating constitutional constraints on police action.

But there are severe damages done with these actions. They trash the rule of law. They trash the idea of limited government. They attack the very idea of Constitutional rights.
Thy attack the idea of reasonable response.
 
Before the Media made celebrities of school shooters, mass school shootings were rare events.

Before the federal government made schools into gun free zones, these were rare events. 

Lets repeal the gun free school zone laws before we attack the Constitution. 

Lets see the media adopt reasonable restrictions on making mass shooters in celebrities, before we adopt their favored agenda of more Second Amendment infringements.

The potential harm of the emotional DO SOMETHING response is large, real, and relevant.


21 posted on 05/21/2018 9:41:53 AM PDT by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
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To: rktman

I can’t imagine buying a magazine these days. They’re all ads and sleazy articles.


22 posted on 05/21/2018 9:44:48 AM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: Lurker

I love these guys, they self identify as the enemy so there’s no doubt.


23 posted on 05/21/2018 9:49:03 AM PDT by Bulwyf
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To: rktman

I’m convinced prescription drugs are a big part of the mental state of kids in schools that prescribe them—namely all of them. Ritalin is an anti-psychotic which like many, can actually lead to psychosis.


24 posted on 05/21/2018 9:51:37 AM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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To: rktman

I want free chocolate.......................


25 posted on 05/21/2018 9:51:38 AM PDT by Red Badger (Remember all the great work Obama did for the black community?.............. Me neither.)
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To: rktman

I find it amazing, the supernatural ability that only crazed leftists seem to possess, of reading the thoughts, emotional, and motivations stars of normal people. It’s like magic.


26 posted on 05/21/2018 9:53:30 AM PDT by semaj (U\)
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To: semaj

Stars=state

Darn auto correct.


27 posted on 05/21/2018 9:57:24 AM PDT by semaj (U\)
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To: rktman

Just when we start to think that “common sense” gun control measures are a reasonable approach to these tragedies, along comes a Dave Holmes who reminder us why the 2d Amendment was incorporated into the Bill of Rights. Without it, nutcases like sophisticated Metrosexuals like Dave, David Hogg, and Adolf Hitler would have grabbed all of the private guns eons ago and we would be powerless against a tyrannical government.

In an election year, it’s timely to remind us which party will protect this right and which party will undermine it.


28 posted on 05/21/2018 9:57:43 AM PDT by centurion316 (Back from exile from 4/2016 until 4/2018.)
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To: rktman
It's a constant source of amusement in how these puffed-up asswipe 'journalists' somehow think they will survive the conflict they advocate.

Click the Gadsden flag for pro-gun resources!

29 posted on 05/21/2018 9:58:29 AM PDT by Joe Brower (Nothing is more terrifying than ignorance in action. Particulary when that ignorance is cultivated.)
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To: semaj

Perhaps your computer was commenting about you being one of the “stars”. ;-)


30 posted on 05/21/2018 10:00:29 AM PDT by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: rktman
How about banning all alcohol

Causes more deaths and accidents and family abuse
31 posted on 05/21/2018 10:00:51 AM PDT by uncbob
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To: trisham
I can’t imagine buying a magazine these days.

I'm quite fond of the MagPul PMAG 30 round.

32 posted on 05/21/2018 10:01:31 AM PDT by glock rocks (... so much win!)
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To: glock rocks

I “2nd” that.


33 posted on 05/21/2018 10:02:31 AM PDT by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: rktman

Except they say it is to save children and in the next breath say killing the unborn is a good thing.


34 posted on 05/21/2018 10:02:31 AM PDT by pas
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To: rktman

The Democrats used combat vehicles to burn up American children at Waco.

No gun control.

Never.


35 posted on 05/21/2018 10:04:14 AM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: glock rocks

:)


36 posted on 05/21/2018 10:06:36 AM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: All

Blame Hollywood, blame video games, blame over-medication, blame Social Media, blame bad parenting.... but don’t blame guns.


37 posted on 05/21/2018 10:06:46 AM PDT by Maverick68
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To: rktman

If this nutcase demand we give up
the right to keep and bear arms,
free speech (freedom of the press)
will go, right along with the rest.
He’s wishing himself out of a job.
But he’s to stupid to realize this.
I demand he stop writing articles.
Now.


38 posted on 05/21/2018 10:06:53 AM PDT by Lean-Right (Eat More Moose)
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To: rktman

Typical Nazi.


39 posted on 05/21/2018 10:11:58 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (#NotARussianBot)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

Hmmm. Doesn’t appear to be a Trump supporter. LOL!


40 posted on 05/21/2018 10:14:32 AM PDT by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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