[ealgeone]

Betcha the nyt has armed guards....get rid of them and whatever personal security he has and we can talk.

[BipolarBob]

Bret Stephens is a conservative columnist like Jimmy Kimmel is a political analyst.

[TigerClaws]

100,000,000 million killed by their own government in the 20th century alone.

[upchuck]

Mr. Stephens should read this

[lowbridge]

“Stephens goes on to suggest that the idea of armed citizenry in general–and the need for a group like the iconic Minutemen in particular–is long past. He says our defense now lies in missiles and the like.”

We’re allowed to have missiles? ;-)

[RinaseaofDs]

The unmasking continues.

[Howie66]

Do that after REPEALING the First Amendment. And the 16th. And the 17th.

[Pollster1]

Go for it, NYT!

Their cronies control 18 states. Real Americans control the rest. How are they going to get 2/3 of the states to approve giving tyrants absolute power?

[Lurkinanloomin]

I have another suggestion.

Repeal all of the unconstitutional gun laws starting with NFA ‘34 and GCA ‘68

[familyop]

"He says our defense now lies in missiles and the like."

That's either dishonest or moronic. Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, [<----even without much terrain cover or concealment], Vietnam, Ukraine,... A foreign enemy couldn't take this country with missiles alone, including nukes, unless Americans are disarmed and short on supplies as a result of being disarmed.

If he had any military combat training experience, he either failed to learn or failed to want the best for our country.

[jiggyboy]

https://twitter.com/BretStephensNYT/status/755568258154192896

[blueunicorn6]

This was one nut job. He planned it well. He had some money. He evidently had lots of free time.

It was awful.

Now, imagine that there are more nut jobs out there. Many more.

And they have access to many people trained to kill.

They have access to Army armored vehicles and helicopters.

They use them against Americans, say at Waco.

They did.

And the government employees followed the orders of the Democrats.

There is no discussion about gun control.

None.

The Democrats sent in Army armored vehicles against American civilians because those Americans wouldn’t OBEY them.

The Democrats will kill you if you don’t OBEY them.

And they have lots of ideas that they want obeyed.

Nope.

No gun control.

Never.

Molon Labe.

[Paladin2]

Repeal his 1st Amendment

[vetvetdoug]

Get rid of the 19th and 15th Amendments and many of our problems will be solved. Every amendment is weighed the same so if they take the 2nd then get rid of one of those too.

[Political Junkie Too]

From a national-security standpoint, the Amendment’s suggestion that a “well-regulated militia” is “necessary to the security of a free State,” is quaint. The Minutemen that will deter Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong-un are based in missile silos in Minot, N.D., not farmhouses in Lexington, Mass.

The NYT author is wrong on this point.

The 2nd amendment is NOT about "national security," it is about "free states," that is, about protecting the sovereignty of the states against an encroaching federal government.

"A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State" was achieved by arming the people of the states, and "reserving to the States respectively, the Appointment of the Officer, and the Authority of training the Militia" was meant to give control of it to the states.

Protecting the "national security" of the United States from foreign invaders was the job of the Navy.

-PJ

[Celerity]

Yup.

This is what a New York City conservative looks like.

Not surprised.

[apillar]

I actually think stories like this are just what we need. Let the gun grabbers take the mask off and show what they REALLY want, so the next time they say they only want “common sense gun safety measures”, the American voter will hear “gun ban” and “Full Repeal of the 2nd Amendment”

[Nifster]

When the msm calls someone a conservative what they really mean is a Democrat who isn’t a commie

[Vaduz]

Over reacting never helps use brain first.

[familyop]

Folks, we’ve seen the mass murders committed by the fatherless super-predators right in front of us, just as predicted by fathers’ right advocates during the 1990s. The horrible atrocities are being dishonestly used to disarm the kinds of people who would protect our communities: those real conservatives who continue living by traditional morality. They don’t look so stylish or influential, but the situation is what it is.

Our local community leadership structures are upside down with our real men treated like garbage.