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Brooks: Reducing Number of Guns ‘The Only Way to Have a Meaningful Difference’
breitbart.com ^ | 3/26/2021 | Ian Hatchett

Posted on 03/27/2021 2:55:01 PM PDT by rktman

On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks said that the only way to have a meaningful impact on gun violence is to decrease the number of guns in the U.S., something countries like Australia have done.

Brooks said, “[T]he more I look at it, and I’m not alone in this, the more you conclude that the simple problem is we have too many guns in America. There’s upwards of, some estimates, 350 million guns in this country. And so, when you get a lonely young man who’s detached and sociopathic, getting a gun for that person is not hard. And so, we spend a lot of time on these things like background checks and assault weapon bans, and that’s fine. But a lot of effort has been put into things that aren’t that effective. We just have to have a debate on how do we reduce the total number of guns in [the] country? And other countries have done this, Australia and others, through buybacks and other things. It’s obviously super difficult politically. But, to me, it’s the only way to have a meaningful difference.”

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government; Philosophy; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2a; banglist; brooks; davidbrooks; defundnpr; defundpbs; defundthednc; guns; kaba; mediammatters; mediawingofthednc; newyorkslimes; npr; pbs; rkba
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DOH! How come someone as brilliant as this person didn't slap his forehead and say: "I'm moving to Australia!" Problem solved. Well for him at least. Pesky bill of rights.
1 posted on 03/27/2021 2:55:01 PM PDT by rktman
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Ridiculous...Reducing no. of bad people will make a difference. This guy had a history and should have never been able to purchase a gun.


2 posted on 03/27/2021 2:56:49 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: rktman

Well folks, he is only a journalist. One can forgive him for logic achievable only by those to whom the use of a wedge is equivalent to an application of tensor calculus.


3 posted on 03/27/2021 2:58:11 PM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: rktman

Is David going to volunteer to round up the excessive number of firearms he thinks exists in the country?


4 posted on 03/27/2021 2:58:21 PM PDT by Kazan
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To: rktman

Oh, the impact will be meaningful alright. It will increase drastically as fewer good guys with guns will be around to prevent or limit the carnage.


5 posted on 03/27/2021 2:58:24 PM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all.)
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To: rktman

We don’t need fewer guns - WE NEED FEWER CRIMINALS...


6 posted on 03/27/2021 2:59:09 PM PDT by GOPJ (https://s3media.247sports.com/Uploads/Assets/21/315/10315021.jpeg?width=600&fit=bounds)
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Is his perceived "safety" more important than the Constitution and the BoR?

I have a solution, but Brooks won't like it.

7 posted on 03/27/2021 3:00:10 PM PDT by jonascord (First rule of the Dunning-Kruger Club is that you do not know you are in the Dunning-Kruger club.)
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To: rktman

David Brooks might be happier somewhere else. He has rights. He should go. They can do with him what they want. He can take David Frum and Bret Stephens with him.


8 posted on 03/27/2021 3:00:54 PM PDT by cdcdawg (WTF is "Jim Eagle?")
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I have to agree with liberals... it would be nice to return to a time before guns when murder never happened!

wait..

BAHHAHAHHHAHAHA

Hey stupid liberals, you can’t stop evil by eliminating what it uses to carry out it’s desires. If you took away their gun, they would kill them with a knife. If take away their knife they will kill them with a rock or their bare hands.


9 posted on 03/27/2021 3:01:51 PM PDT by TexasFreeper2009
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To: rktman

Yes, and getting rid of screwdrivers and thin strips of metal is the way to cut down on the burglary rate. Idiot!


10 posted on 03/27/2021 3:03:43 PM PDT by Campion (What part of "shall not be infringed" don't they understand?)
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Didn’t Brooks used to be a conservative?


11 posted on 03/27/2021 3:04:23 PM PDT by The people have spoken (Proud member of Hillary's basket of deplorables)
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And fresh fruit and pointed sticks. You have to figure out how to deal with those too.


12 posted on 03/27/2021 3:06:13 PM PDT by Pollster1 (America is no longer in Claire Wolfe's "awkward stage")
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To: rktman

And this idiot is supposed to be the conservative at the NY Times...


13 posted on 03/27/2021 3:06:26 PM PDT by srmanuel
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To: rktman

Reducing the number of CONVICTED CRIMINALS THAT YOU LET OUT BACK ON THE STREETS.....is “The Only Way to Have a Meaningful Difference”!!!


14 posted on 03/27/2021 3:07:10 PM PDT by G Larry (Authority is vested in those to whom it applies.)
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‘And so, when you get a lonely young man who’s detached and sociopathic, getting a gun for that person is not hard. ‘

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Here’s a picture of the mass shooters in 2020 for Brooks to take a look at.. these are the detached ‘lonely’ men who shot up crowds of people. Look closely David - this is the killing style usually attributed to ‘white men’...

Take a look David:

https://s3media.247sports.com/Uploads/Assets/21/315/10315021.jpeg?width=600&fit=bounds


15 posted on 03/27/2021 3:07:47 PM PDT by GOPJ (https://s3media.247sports.com/Uploads/Assets/21/315/10315021.jpeg?width=600&fit=bounds)
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3D printers

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=3d+printer+guns&atb=v259-1&ia=web


16 posted on 03/27/2021 3:10:27 PM PDT by monkeyshine (live and let live is dead)
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To: GOPJ

17 posted on 03/27/2021 3:10:42 PM PDT by Bratch (The only way men or women can be judged is against the canvas of their own time. - Louis L'Amour)
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To: Bratch

You are right. Generally speaking we don’t have a gun problem. We have a drug problem.


18 posted on 03/27/2021 3:12:10 PM PDT by monkeyshine (live and let live is dead)
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To: rktman

Well, they are reducing the number of guns, in quite an effective way! They are taking guns our of the hands of law enforcement officers, as they tie those hands behind their backs. Fewer and fewer guns for law enforcement, and more and more in the hands of criminals and anarchists is the rule.

Surprised that Brooks does not recognize this fact. Chicago, Baltimore, LA, Portland, etc etc etc, are all benefiting from the destruction, murder, and economic collapse the Democrats are bringing to all of us! Let us be thankful, now!


19 posted on 03/27/2021 3:12:57 PM PDT by Richard Axtell (President Asterisk is an ass to risk the economy and rights of all Americans.)
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To: rktman

If you voted for Binden (or someone voted for you for Biden), you have to give up your guns.

Problem solved.


20 posted on 03/27/2021 3:13:32 PM PDT by UNGN
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