Posted on 08/04/2019 5:12:59 PM PDT by rktman
The progressive brain trust over at Vox.com posted a rather long article that was one of the more honest leftist anti-gun pieces I've read in a while and illustrates precisely why law-abiding gun owners are so distrustful of the anti-Second Amendment crowd.
It's the main points of those paragraphs that always bring me to my main problems with the Democrats' lust for "sweeping gun legislation" in whatever form they propose.
The first is the number of guns issue. We have always had a lot of guns here in the United States. The proximity/availability argument from the left has always been weak to me, especially as I'm an Arizonan. I grew up around guns. Heck, my liberal friends are all gun owners here. If there were a logical thread that could be run through the availability argument then we should be under siege here.
The tragic mass shooting we had in Tucson years ago was done by a lunatic who had been on local law enforcement's radar for years and nothing was done about him.
(Excerpt) Read more at pjmedia.com ...
Wow! Thank You for the article.
You are surely welcome. Happy Sunday evening.
Was there ever any doubt?!
Not for anyone paying attention.
The Vox Article itself:(Link) What no politician wants to admit about gun control
"Other countries have done exactly that. Australia, for example, enacted a mandatory gun buyback that achieved that goal, and saw firearm suicides fall as a result. But the reforms those countries enacted are far more dramatic than anything US politicians are calling for — and even they wouldn't get us to where many other developed countries are."
Don't say "It can't happen here", because they are telling us right now what they are planning.
Sums it up quite nicely.
Well it’s not a shock to most of us and hasn’t been since Nov 1963.
It ain’t just the progressives either.
IMO there ain’t a politician out there who wouldn’t be happy to see the citizenry dis-armed.
Good tagline, but you left out chasing.
Guns? What guns?
Ugh, not to you , but to the article, STOP CALLING THEM PROGRESIVES, they are pinks and reds!!
Of course this has been their endgame all along. We all knew it. We could see what they did in other countries. That’s why we won’t go along with their attempts at sticking the camel’s nose under the tent.
ie “how about just background checks”?
No.
When a Muslim goes whack and commits a mass killing, we're always told "don't blame ALL Muslims".
How come we have to blame ALL guns when a gun goes whack - especially since guns don't have religions, ideologies or even conscious thought?
but you left out chasing
Not enough characters to fit it in. Limit is 110 and I'm at 105.
5.56mm
Lots of things don’t make sense in the anti gun argument.
Like they want to take guns from people, saying that only the government should have them.
But then they call Trump “Hitler” and think cops are racist thugs.
Make up your mind, libs!
Great point. The left must think we trust them more than Trump. Ever think that they can’t get dumber and they prove you wrong? It’s aggravating and starting to piss me off.
“... European levels of violence...”
That means: unilateral violence by Marxists and Muslims against an unarmed indigenous populace.
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