Posted on 08/07/2019 7:11:23 AM PDT by C19fan
When it comes to gun control, conservatives have been fortunate in their enemies. Every time there is a mass shooting, the left renews its calls for gun control, but it spends a great deal of energy on futile and ahistorical arguments about the wording of the Second Amendment, or making hackle-raising, invidious comparisons with Europe. And when it comes time to actually suggest what should be done, Democrats generally suggest policies recycled from the 1994 crime bill, such as background checks and a ban on assault weapons. There’s little evidence that these policies did anything to curb gun violence the first time they were tried, which undercuts the calls for redoubling those efforts.
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Unfortunately, when crime rates began to rise, the timing made it look as if liberal policies were the culprit.
As someone who grew up in the NYC area during the 70s/80s liberal policies was directly responsible for NYC becoming a hell hole that inspired movies like "The Warriors" and "Escape From NY".
Get rid of gun free zones.
Pubbies should enact a national CHP law.
Want to stop a mass shooter? (or new yorker or californian, but I digress).
Simple, allow conservtive gun owners to shoot back.
Say, what stopped the last couple?
so it’s only conservatives that have Guns and if the Dems get their way they’ll be the ones with the Guns
She knows what she needs to say to stay at the Post.
Real Americans are going to keep our guns. Globalist thugs should back down. We’re not stupid enough to give them absolute power over our lives.
Bite me commie.
I will KEEP MY GUNS regardless of what Megan McArdle, Congress, OR gun-grabbing President Trump say or do.
War is coming, people. Prepare.
Kay:
God back into schools
More home-schooling
Repeal of all welfare
Stop to casual anti-depressants
Halt of War On Boys
Discontinue “children as lifestyle accessories”
War On AntiFa
If homosexuals want to continue to practice gay sex they’re going to have to find a way to stop AIDs
"guns" are NOT the problem!!!!
It is our Godless, baby-killing, no parental oversight, culture that is the problem!!!!
Shut up, Meg.
How does the author explain Baltimore or Chicago?
The mass shootings we are concerned about are those that will occur when we are unarmed and a progressive government wants to force compliance with their freedom-killing policies.
So mass shootings are our fault now?
This is insane.
For the millionth time: the people are the problem, not the guns.
Eliminate 22,000 laws that violate “SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED” and restore Constitutional carry.
Declare the DemocRAT National Committee and their military arm, Antifa, to be the Domestic Enemies that they are and deal with them accordingly.
Reopen all of the Mental Institutions that the Liberals shut down and put the insane back in their cages.
If liberals want to stop pedophilia, they need to stop Epstein, Anthony Weiner and Hollywood.
Interesting how no Conservatives are responsible for the shootings, yet we’re the ones that have to figure out a way to stop them. More Leftist bullsh*t being slung against the wall for someone else to clean up.
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