James Taylor: Let’s sacrifice a little liberty for safety

Hot Air ^ | January 22, 2013 | Ed Morrissey

[oldbrowser]

Don’t forget the 17th: direct election of US senators, which has done incalculable damage to state sovereignty

You are correct, some "common sense" updating to that misguided amendment should also be up for discussion.

[al baby]

Is that true he is a bigger asshat than i could imagine

[AngelesCrestHighway]

“Sacrifice a little liberty?”...

Never, Chuckle head!

[AngelesCrestHighway]

[SWAMPSNIPER]

“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety”.
Benjamin Franklin

[AngelesCrestHighway]

"How sweet it is - NOT!"

[um1990]

My response to the “Assault Weapon” argument is this:

Assault is a Verb, not an Adjective; It takes a person, and a decision, to Assault another.

[RJS1950]

Well, using his addle-brained logic we need to shoot all known gangbangers on sight. They lose their right to breath in order to make it safer for everyone else.

How about that moron?

FUBO & FAD

[Uncle Chip]

You go first, James —

[WCH]

That made me noxious listening to him drool over Obama like that.

[CSM]

James Taylor believes that black people should be less free! If he believes it for all, then we can start segmenting their arguments!

[Billthedrill]

“We” have to give up rights? Really? That’s the first I’d heard that Taylor was a firearms enthusiast. Oh, he isn’t? Then it’s “YOU have to give up rights,” isn’t it? No sale, Jimmy.

[Max in Utah]

If drug laws don’t prevent addicts from buying drugs, why would gun laws prevent criminals from obtaining them?

"But it's for the children!"

Excellent point, and one I will repeat to the appropriate people.

I grew to dislike James Taylor over the years. The last straw was some years ago when a girlfriend bought tickets to a Taylor concert and asked me to go. Taylor put on a pretty good show, except when he did "Fire and Rain", his best and most popular song-- he deliberately murdered it. To me it was proof that he was a childish, spiteful bastard.

[CSM]

“Lets give up automobiles. Public transportation is much safer.”

There were 200 deaths on the NYC subway last year (or 2011), we better just command people to live in their 200 square foot box and the government will send a delivery drone to bring us soylent green. You can pay them by riding an exercise bike to produce clean energy!

[freekitty]

I agree and he may run for office. No thanks.

[ScottinVA]

Taylor needs to stay with singing insomnia cures.

STFU, James.

[Buckeye McFrog]

As far as I am concerned, having Taylor perform is an impeachable offense.

I've heard him perform the National Anthem, and you are correct.

[Buckeye McFrog]

Public transportation is much safer.

My brother worked a temp job where he had access to the drug test results of our Unionized bus drivers and light rail operators. Let's just say, I wouldn't be so sure about that.

[Vendome]

This gun owner feels we have sufficient laws restricting guns and several should be repealed including state laws.