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The Unserious ‘Serious’ Discussion About Guns
American Spectator ^ | October 4, 2017 | George Neumayr

Posted on 10/04/2017 4:25:46 PM PDT by Twotone

There is no real moral philosophy informing it.

The philosophy underlying liberalism is at once totalitarian and relativistic. It proposes more government and less morality. It laughs at the mustiness of the Ten Commandments, then demands respect for a flurry of new laws. It scoffs at old codes of self-control, then presses for “gun control” and greater state controls on this or that freedom.

From this ethos, regnant for decades in elite circles, has come an out-of-control society in which pols reflexively respond to unspeakable tragedy by advocating more and more laws for a people whose gradual loss of virtue guarantees that they will violate them. The terminus of this toxic admixture of totalitarianism and relativism is the transformation of society into a kind of prison: an endless number of laws and deprivation of freedoms imposed on an increasingly soulless citizenry.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: banglist; gunbans; guncontrol; mediabias; nra; trump

1 posted on 10/04/2017 4:25:46 PM PDT by Twotone
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To: Twotone

George Neumayr is really talented, I will keep my eye on him...


2 posted on 10/04/2017 4:29:46 PM PDT by heterosupremacist (Domine Iesu Christe, Filius Dei, miserere me peccatorem!)
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To: heterosupremacist
"Conspicuously absent from all the sanctimonious lectures on gun control this week was any grappling with America’s cultural meltdown, which is the most comprehensible explanation for a spike in mass shootings even as laws and restrictions multiply. Indeed, the loudest voices for gun control come from the degenerate cultural forces most responsible for that meltdown. They demand that America “get serious about gun control,” even as they get less and less serious about the values and institutions most essential to the preservation of civilization. Educrats who have decimated America’s public schools profess shock at an increase in “school shootings”; late-night hosts who roll out the red carpet for blood-and-gore stars wonder at the “glamour of violence”; an elite that prides itself on destroying the traditional family is aghast at the rise of so many mass-shooting misfits who come from “broken families.”
3 posted on 10/04/2017 4:33:28 PM PDT by heterosupremacist (Domine Iesu Christe, Filius Dei, miserere me peccatorem!)
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To: Twotone

http://reason.com/blog/2017/10/04/a-statistician-reconsiders-her-support-f


4 posted on 10/04/2017 4:38:00 PM PDT by InvisibleChurch (https://thepurginglutheran.wordpress.com)
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To: InvisibleChurch

Yes, another good article.


5 posted on 10/04/2017 5:03:12 PM PDT by Twotone
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To: Twotone

A voice of reason.


6 posted on 10/05/2017 3:21:35 AM PDT by Biggirl ("One Lord, one faith, one baptism" - Ephesians 4:5)
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