Please provide a link to an article where Krauthammer has "written in favor of confiscation and disarmament". I don't believe such a thing exisst -- you've made it up.
But you could prove me wrong.
don’t know if he said it or not, but he’s also declared
‘Nuclear Energy Is Dead’ After Japanese Crisis
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2692322/posts
and he’s been wrong before:
Krauthammer: Dead Wrong on the 14th
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2566125/posts
sure
http://www.grouchyconservativepundits.com/index.php?topic=3573.0;wap2
from his op-ed:
In fact, the assault weapons ban will have no significant effect either on the crime rate or on personal security. Nonetheless, it is a good idea, though for reasons its proponents dare not enunciate. I am not up for re-election. So let me elaborate the real logic of the ban:
It is simply crazy for a country as modern, industrial, advanced and now crowded as the United States to carry on its frontier infatuation with guns. Yes, we are a young country but the frontier has been closed for 100 years.
In 1992, there were 13,220 handgun murders in the United States. Canada (an equally young country, one might note) had 128; Britain, 33.
Ultimately, a civilized society must disarm its citizenry if it is to have a modicum of domestic tranquility of the kind enjoyed in sister democracies like Canada and Britain. Given the frontier history and individualist ideology of the United States, however, this will not come easily. It certainly cannot be done radically.
It will probably take one, maybe two generations. It might be 50 years before the United States gets to where Britain is today.
Passing a law like the assault weapons ban is a symbolic - purely symbolic - move in that direction. Its only real justification is not to reduce crime but to desensitize the public to the regulation of weapons in preparation for their ultimate confiscation.
and
Yes, Sarah Brady is doing God’s work. Yes, in the end America must follow the way of other democracies and disarm. But there is not the slightest chance that it will occur until liberals join in the other fights to reduce the incidence of and increase the penalties for crime. Only then will there be a public receptive to the idea of real gun control.
now, he wrote this back in 1996, perhaps he’s changed his mind. But I haven’t seen any evidence yet.
btw, Krauthammer is also pro-abortion. And not just one of those “I’m personally opposed, but...” types. He actually voted in favor of legal abortion in Maryland.
I often wonder how many conservatives actually know that much about his positions. He’s on the right when it comes to foreign policy, the military, economics generally...but when it comes to cultural/social issues, he’s of the left.