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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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To: GaryCrow
 
 
To expand upon your comment - freedom is perpetually dangerous, because it must be maintained. The typical conditions of humanity throughout history has been war and slavery. Peace and prosperity is mostly an aberration. In order to maintain freedom you have to stand up, confront and/or fight someone, somewhere, periodically.
 
 

41 posted on 03/27/2021 3:34:04 PM PDT by lapsus calami (What's that stink? Code Pink ! ! And their buddy Murtha, too!)
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To: rktman
And, once again, the agenda is more power and control; a more vulnerable and dependent population, and a population less able to resist oppressive actions.
42 posted on 03/27/2021 3:34:52 PM PDT by Truth29
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To: 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.”

OK genie ass. What is your plan to prevent illegal guns from flooding across the Southern border. Come on man. Show us your smarts.


43 posted on 03/27/2021 3:35:55 PM PDT by antidemoncrat
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To: rktman
" . . . the only way to have a meaningful impact on gun violence is to decrease the number of guns in the U.S."

And the only way to reduce political disagreement is to reduce free speech. Got it.
44 posted on 03/27/2021 3:42:42 PM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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To: The people have spoken

Conservative as in Mitch McConnell & Bill Kristol maybe.

He’s gone full commie over the past few years since his bro-mance with Obama.


45 posted on 03/27/2021 3:44:40 PM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal (Jesus + Something = Nothing ; Jesus + Nothing = Everything )
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To: rktman

Good luck with that. 300 million guns out there. And some of them won’t be found.


46 posted on 03/27/2021 3:45:00 PM PDT by Vermont Lt
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To: TexasFreeper2009

“...it would be nice to return to a time before guns when murder never happened...”

What a maroon. When exactly was there a time in human history when murders never happened? Because before guns existed people where, and still are, murdering each other with knives, swords, arrows, sticks, stones, hands, feet and poison. As a matter of fact, according to Genesis the first murder was done with a rock.

Again, what an idiot.


47 posted on 03/27/2021 3:52:48 PM PDT by Third Wheel
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To: rktman

Let’s try reducing the number of Democrat felons on the streets first. Go back to “three felony strikes” and it’s life without parole.


48 posted on 03/27/2021 3:55:51 PM PDT by Cincinnatus.45-70 (What do DemocRats enjoy more than a truckload of dead babies? Unloading them wthaith a pitchfork!)
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To: rktman

Eccl. 8:11. “Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.”


49 posted on 03/27/2021 3:59:05 PM PDT by Zuriel (Acts 2:38,39....Do you believe it?)
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To: Kazan

Synagouge of Satan bastard!


50 posted on 03/27/2021 4:01:26 PM PDT by cowboyusa (America Cowboy up!)
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To: rktman

“Fewer guns, more crime” is fine with the guy surrounded by armed guards and living in a guarded and gated community.


51 posted on 03/27/2021 4:02:34 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Anti-racism looks suspiciously like racism.)
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To: Sacajaweau

Yeah

Good luck with that Mr. “crease in your pants”

Seriously these nitwits these leftist totalitarians have no idea what they’re up against with the well armed populous in this nation if they ever try anything


52 posted on 03/27/2021 4:03:15 PM PDT by Truthoverpower (Fraud !!! Now we’re off the TRUMP TRAIN and on the Swamp express to communist hell !! TRUTH! )
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To: rktman

On day one of your gun round up, the police go from being public servants to NAZI GESTAPO. Not many signed up for that.


53 posted on 03/27/2021 4:09:37 PM PDT by Dogbert41 (Proud member of the Poor Boy Gang. )
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To: metmom

**Jailing criminals would work better.**

Not just jailing them; but cut out the long delays in reaching judgement, also cutting the soft sentencing. (But I suspect that many of the judges and lawyers have skeletons in their closets that give them a guilty conscience; and therefore their lenient opinions.)


54 posted on 03/27/2021 4:10:22 PM PDT by Zuriel (Acts 2:38,39....Do you believe it?)
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To: Bratch

The problem with that photo, for the Left, is that they’ve broadened the definition of an “active shooter/mass casualty event”’ in an attempt to make it seem like they happened all the time. Doing that, they’ve had to include a lot of folks they don’t want in the sample. Ergo, they don’t want anyone other than white guys.

Well, look at the photo. It’s easy to pick out the white guys because they’re not a lot of them.

As usual, the Left can screw up a wet dream.


55 posted on 03/27/2021 4:11:40 PM PDT by qaz123
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To: Sacajaweau

Reducing the number of mentally unbalanced persons walking the streets of the USA will end this issue.

The guns are NOT the problem-—The mental misfits ARE the problem.


56 posted on 03/27/2021 4:12:09 PM PDT by ridesthemiles ( )
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To: Kazan

I hope he does. He will have a half life of 60 seconds.


57 posted on 03/27/2021 4:34:36 PM PDT by DarthVader (Not by speeches & majority decisions will the great issues th the day be decided but by Blood & Iron)
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To: ridesthemiles

True and getting rid of the terrorists and miscreants will also help.


58 posted on 03/27/2021 4:36:10 PM PDT by DarthVader (Not by speeches & majority decisions will the great issues th the day be decided but by Blood & Iron)
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To: rktman

What we really have are too many lonely young men who are detached and sociopathic, and have been made that way by 90 years of ever-increasing Progressive social policies.


59 posted on 03/27/2021 4:46:37 PM PDT by doragsda
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To: rktman

Taking our guns will also reduce the US population by tens of thousands maybe even hundreds of thousands.

Figure a team of 8-12 people sent to take someone firearms and he kills only 5 of them before they kill him. That’s 6 people. Now consider that they need to take 200 million firearms that mean oh, wait someone will run out of people pretty fast.

I think in the end we keep our guns, just like the British tried to take them to no avail.


60 posted on 03/27/2021 4:49:08 PM PDT by stockpirate (Where Justice Ends Tyranny Begins...Repression Breeds Violence. REBELLION AGAINST TYRANNY )
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