Once a Progressive State, Minnesota Is Now a Fief of the N.R.A.

The New York Times ^ | September 5, 2006 | VERLYN KLINKENBORG

[goldstategop]

There are a couple of more that could be applied but I'm afraid they would get me banned from FR. What I did conclude after having finished his column, was that the modern liberal is insufferable - and an uninformed bore to boot.

(No more Olmert! No more Kadima! No more Oslo! )

[Stoat]

If I had any edit button, I'd have had to correct too many pronouns. Oh well - it wouldn't surprise me in the least if he was a cross-dresser.
 

hehe!  Sorry about that...see what happens when you are working with too many open windows ?  :-)

He probably is some form of deviant...it might explain his sissified perspectives.

[neverdem]

Mr. Lott has proven this oft repeated notion false. John Lott doesn't have a column in the NYTimes, so he actually doesn't exist.

He's alive!!! So is my memory.

Pulling Rank the thread

Pulling Rank the entire article

[neverdem]

Google images yields both. Check the link in comment# 14. I'll go with the NY Times Editorial Board, and that's rare for me. P.S. Here's another reason for naming kids in a way that gender isn't questioned.

[taxesareforever]

Let me see, if I were a armed robber which business would I set my sights on? The one with a sign stating "Firearms banned on these premises" or the one without a sign? Hmmmm.

[rellimpank]

-b-

[neverdem]

What do you have against training and arming the kids? (grin)

They do it all the time in the MidEast... (grim)

They don't seem to employ much marksmanship skills, if any. Thank God!

[Cheapskate]

Besides,I really don't think we want this idiot author packin heat do we?

[rogue yam]

If you apply for a concealed-weapon permit, the local authorities must grant it to you.

Oh jeeze. If only we all lived in states where the government needs no reason to withold your freedoms. What bliss that would be!

[goldstategop]

Liberals want us to get permits for everything in our lives, since we're too incompetent on manage our own affairs. God forbid we should stub our own toes. The Nanny State will see to it you remain accident-free, too.

(No more Olmert! No more Kadima! No more Oslo! )

[x_plus_one]

She wrote the poson wood bible.

[x_plus_one]

The Poisonwood Bible
by Barbara Kingsolver

[glorgau]

even if it’s a library full of kids.

It didn't take the author of the article long to get to the "it's for the children" arguement.

Perhaps there should be a corollary to Godwin's Law stating that a premise becomes invalid when "it's for the children" is invoked.

[Jack Hammer]

Clearly the author believes the state of Minnesota should be a fiefdom of the American Liberal Establishment, like every place else on the national map, and governed according to the collectivist diktats of the self-styled "elite."

Just as clearly, he has never heard of the Second Amendment, and believs that constitutional freedoms should only be allowed us proles to the extent they suit the whims of our "educated betters" - the country's rightful commissars.

[Oztrich Boy]

'requiring every citizen to carry a gun'
----
What an idiot to think that is a goal of anyone.

If a citizen doesn't have a gun, how do they fulfil their milita requirement?

[R. Scott]

WHAT! No BARF Alert?

[WorkerbeeCitizen]

"There are some other twists to these laws. A person carrying a concealed weapon cannot be banned from a public building, even if it’s a library full of kids."

No bias here. /sarc

[Beckwith]

Actually, this is Verlyn Klinkenborg



The woman's picture you posted is that of author Barbara Kingsolver.

[elcid1970]

Ooooo..Veralynn, you've got that narrow hooded slit eye look that says, "I'm a two-fisted liberal who doesn't need guns to affirm my manhood."

What a pudge.

[Jimnorwellwarren]

I didn't know LLBean made their shirts in black. He looks like he could be playing base for the Grateful Dead.