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Guns Part 2: Getting out of Dodge
Pushkin ^ | 9/7/23 | Malcom Gladwell

Posted on 09/07/2023 9:57:48 AM PDT by DallasBiff

The longest running television series of the 20th century was Gunsmoke, a western set in the notorious Dodge City, Kansas. Malcolm sweeps away mountains of legal scholarship to make a bold claim: The simplest explanation for the Supreme’s Court’s puzzling run of gun rights decisions may be that the justices watched too much Gunsmoke when they were growing up

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; History; Society
KEYWORDS: 2ndamendment; banglist; guns; gunsmoke
Gunsmoke? Really?

Mods pull at your discretion.

1 posted on 09/07/2023 9:57:48 AM PDT by DallasBiff
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To: DallasBiff

Or perhaps the explanation is that they have actually read the constitution and are doing their job in interpreting it as written.


2 posted on 09/07/2023 10:02:26 AM PDT by EastTexasTraveler
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To: DallasBiff
The simplest explanation for the Supreme’s Court’s puzzling run of gun rights decisions may be that the justices watched too much Gunsmoke when they were growing up.

Yes, a simpleton might well think so.

3 posted on 09/07/2023 10:04:11 AM PDT by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: DallasBiff
It is almost exactly the opposite.

It has been the propaganda push by the left to demonize guns, starting in the late 1890's.

Americans have always opposed a widespread ban on guns for most Americans. But governments have been able to impose gun bans for disfavored minorities, such as freed slaves and immigrants.

4 posted on 09/07/2023 10:05:44 AM PDT by marktwain
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To: DallasBiff

ROFLMAO. The apophenia is strong in this one.


5 posted on 09/07/2023 10:17:42 AM PDT by Chad C. Mulligan
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To: DallasBiff

Poof, up in AI smoke!


6 posted on 09/07/2023 10:20:09 AM PDT by Texas Fossil (Texas is not about where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind and Attitude.)
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To: DallasBiff

You post this and then suggested it should be deleted?

Gezzz


7 posted on 09/07/2023 10:23:26 AM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: dragnet2
You post this and then suggested it should be deleted?

I know, but some of the mods can be a little touchy these days.

Anyway "Gunsmoke" can be seen daily on MeTV.

8 posted on 09/07/2023 10:37:49 AM PDT by DallasBiff (Apology not accepted.la is not the sharpest knife in the drawer)
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To: dragnet2

My thoughts Also


9 posted on 09/07/2023 10:38:14 AM PDT by Big Red Badger (The Truman Show)
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To: DallasBiff

The premise is retarded. Gladwell is a total waste of carbon.


10 posted on 09/07/2023 10:51:29 AM PDT by fabjr60 ("I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed, or numbered! My life is my own.")
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To: DallasBiff

Malcolm Gladwell is like Barack Obama: he is thoroughly *g@y* and full of bull$h1t, and no one will tell him that those are his strengths.


11 posted on 09/07/2023 11:45:37 AM PDT by Honest Nigerian
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To: DallasBiff

That Malcolm Gladwell is not the guru some think he is. I think his “Bomber Mafia” book was way off the beam when he claimed our bombing in WWII did nothing to help end the war.


12 posted on 09/07/2023 12:37:39 PM PDT by DesertRhino (Dogs are called man's best friend. Moslems hate dogs. Add it up..)
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To: Chad C. Mulligan

Well played!


13 posted on 09/07/2023 3:32:31 PM PDT by Taxman (SAVE AMERICA! VOTE REPUBLICAN IN 2023 AND 2024!)
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