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Alan Dershowitz: 'Easy Availability of Guns in Our Society' Helps Explain Atlanta Shooting
NewsMax ^ | March 18, 2021 | Theodore Bunker

Posted on 03/25/2021 3:15:05 PM PDT by familyop

I really do think that the easy availability of guns in our society does help explain this...I'm not against gun ownership, I believe in the 2nd Amendment, but I do believe in reasonable restrictions. I would like to know how this guy got his gun. Does he have a mental illness? Was it easily available? Was it lawfully purchased? I think that's an issue that has to be debated.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: alandershowitz; banglist; classbased; contraindicated; guncontrol; oftenwrong; thedersh
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One problem with the direction of the man affectionately referred to as "The Dersh" on this, is that this real world is not as perfect as the world in his mind with respect to psychologists. Many psychologists are quite subjective and do lean to the left. How would many of the evaluations be conducted? Subjectively, perhaps? Would a bill like Sheila Jackson Lee's bill be the best way to go? Dershowitz seems to think so.

It's not going to be a perfect world, either. In the United States population, there are over 330 million people by now. Mass murders will happen even more, if much of the more sane part of the population is disarmed according to income and legal resources (expensive evaluations, research to find ethical psychologists, lawyers, etc.).

And generally, who is more sane? Would the person who is insulated from many of the dangers in this population be more sane, really (higher income, law abiding)? Or would people who are more often confronted with those dangers and coping with them be more sane (lower income, law abiding)?

And how long, before the left disarms people of the next income level, too? And the next?

1 posted on 03/25/2021 3:15:05 PM PDT by familyop
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To: familyop

If the Incel had hacked his victims up with an axe, would Dershowitz feel better about it.


2 posted on 03/25/2021 3:17:10 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
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To: familyop

Liberalism is a better explanation.


3 posted on 03/25/2021 3:17:21 PM PDT by DivineMomentsOfTruth ("There is but one straight course, and that is to seek truth and pursue it steadily." -GW)
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His reluctance to come right out and bluntly state his position on what to do is problematic, too. In my opinion, such universal psychological evaluations would lead to more Democrats being armed than Republicans. I’ve known psychologists who would agree with me.


4 posted on 03/25/2021 3:17:24 PM PDT by familyop
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To: Yaelle

That is a feature not a bug Alan.


5 posted on 03/25/2021 3:18:08 PM PDT by KC_Lion
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To: familyop

What explains it even more so is the fact that murder is an innate part of humanity.


6 posted on 03/25/2021 3:18:25 PM PDT by fruser1
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To: familyop

“but I do believe in reasonable restrictions”

What part of SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED doesn’t this (self censored) get? There is no issue to debate. As libs love to say, the debate is over.


7 posted on 03/25/2021 3:22:15 PM PDT by proust (All posts made under this ip are, for the intents and purposes of the author, considered satire.)
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To: familyop

Sorry Alan, it is the loss of Morality that is the cause of most shootings. We as a nation survived the 1929 depression with “easy access to guns”.


8 posted on 03/25/2021 3:22:17 PM PDT by broken_clock (Go Trump! Still praying.)
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To: familyop

Blaming a free society for the consequences of ubiquitous liberal insanity is usually below him.


9 posted on 03/25/2021 3:22:38 PM PDT by Track9 (Dealing with democrats is like living without toilet paper. )
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To: BenLurkin

[If the Incel had hacked his victims up with an axe, would Dershowitz feel better about it.]

Apparently so. Has Alan heard about “knives” or “clubs” or “swords” either?

One of the girls claimed Alan was present on JE’s island and witnessed some of what happened.


10 posted on 03/25/2021 3:23:02 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: proust

To him, a reasonable restriction means keeping your underwear on when being massaged by Epstein’s girls.


11 posted on 03/25/2021 3:23:14 PM PDT by proust (All posts made under this ip are, for the intents and purposes of the author, considered satire.)
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To: broken_clock

He is amazed that when you bomb Syrians, they want to shoot back...


12 posted on 03/25/2021 3:24:18 PM PDT by willyd (I for one welcome our NSA overlords)
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To: KC_Lion
I think we need to ban all illegal gun purchases. That will fix the problem.
13 posted on 03/25/2021 3:24:23 PM PDT by mosaicwolf
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To: familyop

The question for any politician:

“Do criminals abide by gun laws?”

(crickets)


14 posted on 03/25/2021 3:24:38 PM PDT by nesnah (Liberals - the petulant children of politics)
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>> Does he have a mental illness? Was it easily available? Was it lawfully purchased?

Was he known to the FBI?


15 posted on 03/25/2021 3:27:40 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: familyop

The easy availability of Dersh is usually quite helpful. In this case, not so much.


16 posted on 03/25/2021 3:27:51 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (GOP-free since 10/9/20)
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To: familyop

Easy availability of automobiles explains tens of thousands of deaths, millions of injuries and billions of dollars of damages every year.


17 posted on 03/25/2021 3:28:47 PM PDT by Atticus
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To: BenLurkin

And under the regime of wokeness, the mass murderer might have passed an evaluation done by psychologists anyway. In my school, some of the psychology students were in the faction that protested against the so-called patriarchy by occasionally wearing black clothing and “mourning.” That faction included students from social work, nursing, women’s studies, drama, English and commercial graphics programs.

Folks, no matter what we do with more laws to restrict our Second Amendment rights, this immoral and rotting society with a population of around 330 million people will produce some mass murderers. And they’ll easily obtain firearms. The real question is, “Do you want to be able to defend yourself?”

Another good question might be, “Why do you want to preserve the life and freedom of every murderer as long as possible? Why not allow them to run into their consequences with people defending themselves?” We won’t clean up our house by harboring and preserving the bugs. Protecting them only allows them to attack more insidiously and effectively while further hurting others with false accusations and political and psychological jargon.

And what about the drug problem? You know that some of the families of mass murderers have hidden that, and most of them did have the financial and legal resources to do so.


18 posted on 03/25/2021 3:29:20 PM PDT by familyop
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To: familyop
A Constitutional scholar like Prof Dershowitz should know that there's a great solution to this matter....AMEND THE CONSTITUTION!

Thirty eight state legislatures are *sure* to enthusiastically support an amendment.

19 posted on 03/25/2021 3:29:55 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Trump: "They're After You. I'm Just In The Way")
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To: proust

LOL


20 posted on 03/25/2021 3:32:10 PM PDT by KeyLargo
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