Does the obligation of ensuring peace and security include removing threats from the country and the world? Does it include the understanding that having programs with hundreds of trillions of dollars worth of unfunded liability do not contribute to security?
(From you) How can someone otherwise so smart, be so stupid?
Ideologies sometimes blind. It isn't guns "in the streets" that are bad, it's guns in the hands of criminals. But guns in the hands of criminals can be cured by guns in the hand of trained, good people. New York might have many good people (doesn't it?) but not so many trained good people and almost none with guns in their daily possession.
Yep ... Same with Washington, Chicago, LA etc.
Contra the original author, the problem isn't guns. The problem is bad people. One doesn't counter "bad people" by banning guns, but by empowering "good people". Most of the article actually addressed the "bad people" issue. The gun thing stuck out like a sore thumb.
How can someone otherwise so smart, be so stupid?
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There is no error so monstrous that it fails to find defenders among the ablest men. Lord Acton.