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Washington Post: Can Americans ditch guns the way we ditched cigarettes?
The Washington Post ^
| 05/21/18
| Petula Dvorak
Posted on 05/21/2018 1:54:57 PM PDT by Simon Green
Not that long ago, cigarettes were completely woven into American culture. The Marlboro Man, posters telling us that “more doctors smoke Camels than any other cigarette,” even the armrests on planes and all our cars were designed for smokers.
And now? Not so much.
Can it work like that with guns?
(snip)
I grew up surrounded by cigarette smoke. My dad smoked. So did practically everyone else I knew.
But my kids? Totally different.
They saw someone smoking in a restaurant while we were traveling abroad recently and they freaked out, like they’d witnessed a beheading.
Inconceivable in their world.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: District of Columbia
KEYWORDS: 2ndamendment; banglist; bloat; commies; districtofcolumbia; no; nra; petuladvorak; secondamendment; shutitdown; washingtoncompost; washingtonpost
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To: Simon Green
They saw someone smoking in a restaurant while we were traveling abroad recently and they freaked out, like they’d witnessed a beheading.Yeah, well they're exactly the same.
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posted on
05/21/2018 2:04:35 PM PDT
by
Sans-Culotte
(Time to get the US out of the UN and the UN out of the US!)
To: Simon Green
Oh, I don’t know, Washington Post. Can you take a long
flying leap to kiss my ass?
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posted on
05/21/2018 2:05:13 PM PDT
by
Sivad
(Demo M/O = infiltrate, overtake, politicize, weaponize)
To: Simon Green
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posted on
05/21/2018 2:06:03 PM PDT
by
Ancesthntr
("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt)
To: Simon Green
"Washington Post: Can Americans ditch guns the way we ditched cigarettes?"
Ditched cigarette butts found on the ground are still pretty common.
To: Simon Green
I ditched the print decades ago. I could ditch bullets one at a time.
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posted on
05/21/2018 2:08:17 PM PDT
by
mountainlion
(Live well for those that did not make it back.)
To: Simon Green
Ditched?
Cigarettes and nicotine are available within a mile or two in every urban and suburban area. And nicotine is available in stronger more convenient forms than in the past. Kids even use Juul pods in school, in classrooms.
Maybe the WaPo should rethink their analogy.
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posted on
05/21/2018 2:08:45 PM PDT
by
jjotto
("Ya could look it up!")
To: Simon Green
From the article: “Can you imagine John Wayne without a rifle or Humphrey Bogart without a cigarette?
Both are part of our narrative. Both have killed millions and millions of us.”
Guns have also saved many lives, while cigarettes have not, so that’s a really big flaw in the comparison.
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posted on
05/21/2018 2:09:11 PM PDT
by
Texan Tory
(Laissez rouler les bons temps!)
To: Simon Green
Kids come to school and shoot their bullies.
Now the plan is to bully us in to changing our gun laws.
So much irony....
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posted on
05/21/2018 2:09:50 PM PDT
by
Tzimisce
To: Mount Athos
The left should have tried to take our guns BEFORE they inflicted their constituency of criminals and the insane on the rest of us.
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posted on
05/21/2018 2:10:01 PM PDT
by
Let's Roll
("You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality" -- Ayn Rand)
To: Steely Tom
You say nanny state, I say nazi state.
I am puffing on a Pall Mall. So I guess they are still legal.
They can demonize all they want so long as they respect my freedom.
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posted on
05/21/2018 2:10:38 PM PDT
by
joshua c
(To disrupt the system, we must disrupt our lives)
To: Simon Green
The hypocrisy of the left knows no bounds.
Somehow the left believes that we have become more virtuous by ditching tobacco based cigarettes, and replacing them with weed (and vaping).
Pathetic.
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posted on
05/21/2018 2:10:54 PM PDT
by
indthkr
To: Simon Green
The WAPO needs to stop treating us like we are all school shooters.
If we were to shoot somebody it’s much more likely that they be criminals.....or traitorous tyrants and their complicit propagandists.
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posted on
05/21/2018 2:11:21 PM PDT
by
right way right
(May we remain sober over mere men, for God really is our only true hope.)
To: Simon Green
Time to shut the WP down.
Bezos doesn’t get to have a monopoly and a propaganda wing.
Break up Amazon, force the sale of the ENEMEDIA WP to vulture captalists
CRUSH, KILL, DESTROY.
That’s what WINNING looks like.
WHY is Hillary still not behind bars.
Times running out.
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posted on
05/21/2018 2:11:22 PM PDT
by
Rome2000
(SMASH THE CPUSA-SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS-CLOSE ALL MOSQUES-GOD WITH US)
To: Simon Green
Can Americans ditch mainstream ‘news’ media the way we ditched cigarettes?
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posted on
05/21/2018 2:12:25 PM PDT
by
SpaceBar
To: Simon Green
No. Because when you’re waiting the average 11 minutes for the cops to arrive after the panicked home invasion 911 call, the smell of cigarette smoke will do nothing to repel the home invader, but the report of a bullet leaving the muzzle of your gun is absolutely essential to making the intruder think twice about staying in the house.
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posted on
05/21/2018 2:13:06 PM PDT
by
Zhang Fei
(Journalism is about covering important stories. With a pillow, until they stop moving.)
To: Jim Robinson
sorry old chap....no
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posted on
05/21/2018 2:13:11 PM PDT
by
xp38
To: Jim Robinson
Better question:Will this country ever ditch the malignancy known as liberalism?
To: Simon Green
Washington Post: Can Americans ditch guns the way we ditched cigarettes?A better question:
Can Americans ditch leftist idiots the way we ditched cigarettes?
Leftism is a cancer that destroys everything that comes into contact with it.
Why can't we have "common-sense leftist control"?
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posted on
05/21/2018 2:19:25 PM PDT
by
Zeppo
("Happy Pony is on - and I'm NOT missing Happy Pony")
To: Simon Green
Hey, Petula. You need to do your homework and read the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.
There is no constitutional amendment to protect smoking cigarettes.
Guns, however, are a different story.
Maybe you didn't read that far, huh?
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posted on
05/21/2018 2:20:15 PM PDT
by
HotHunt
To: Simon Green
Pure idiocy. Cigarettes are not for defense against an out of control gubmint.
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posted on
05/21/2018 2:20:32 PM PDT
by
Tucker39
("It is impossible to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible." George Washington)
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