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Brooks: Even Banning Future Gun Purchases Wouldn’t Reduce Amount of Guns, You Need Buyback Like Australia
breitbart.com ^ | 7/9/2022 | Ian Hantchett

Posted on 07/11/2022 4:18:56 PM PDT by rktman

On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks argued that even a ban on future purchases of guns would not reduce the number of guns in America and that reducing the number of guns in America would require something akin to an Australia-style gun buyback program. And that he has never understood why a gun buyback like Australia’s “is an affront to anybody.” Because it’s a choice whether to sell your gun back or not.

Brooks began by saying that the chance of the federal government taking further action on guns “Seems remote.”

He added, “I’ve never understood why an Australian-style gun buyback is an affront to anybody. It’s an open choice. You can sell your gun or not. But if we’re going to reduce 400 million guns, it would take something like that, not even just banning future purchases. I mean, we’ve got 400 million here.”

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government; Philosophy; Politics/Elections
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Psssstttttt! Hey dumbass. Flights leave daily to head down under. You could fulfill your nocturnal emission scenario by boarding one. They've already done it so easy peasy. Write if you find work. Or don't.
1 posted on 07/11/2022 4:18:56 PM PDT by rktman
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To: rktman

This is the Ministry of Propaganda’s flagship paper and NPR’s token “conservative”.


2 posted on 07/11/2022 4:20:26 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin ( (Natural born citizens are born here of citizen parents)(Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: rktman

But there are still lots of guns in Australia. You need people to not want to murder others actually.


3 posted on 07/11/2022 4:20:56 PM PDT by AndyTheBear
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To: rktman

Ordering a buyback is still stealing


4 posted on 07/11/2022 4:21:22 PM PDT by butlerweave
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...You Need Buyback Like Australia

Uh, you need a Gestapo like Nazi Germany.

5 posted on 07/11/2022 4:21:41 PM PDT by fhayek
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To: rktman

He’s lying when he says Australians had a choice.
It was surrender it or go to prison if caught with it.


6 posted on 07/11/2022 4:21:54 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin ( (Natural born citizens are born here of citizen parents)(Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: rktman

David Brooks is retarded.

Red states need to go their own way.


7 posted on 07/11/2022 4:21:59 PM PDT by july4thfreedomfoundation (My body, my choice....but not when it comes down to unconstitutional "vaccine" mandates.)
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To: AndyTheBear

Hmmm. Maybe make it against the law to kill people? That might work. Or not. 😵‍💫🤬


8 posted on 07/11/2022 4:22:09 PM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
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The government never owned the guns and we already know Brooks, you idiot boob, that gun buy backs do not work.


9 posted on 07/11/2022 4:22:26 PM PDT by dforest (We have to put a stop to this now.)
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It’s an open choice.

No, Dave, it's not. What part of "mandatory" do you not understand?

10 posted on 07/11/2022 4:23:07 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: fhayek

Pssssttttt! It’s called the fbi. Bad apples spoiling the entire bunch these days.


11 posted on 07/11/2022 4:23:23 PM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
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I wouldn’t want AZ to use my tax dollars to buy guns.


12 posted on 07/11/2022 4:26:57 PM PDT by Jonny7797
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Can’t sell the government my guns… they’d never pass a background check.


13 posted on 07/11/2022 4:26:58 PM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion (Fraud vitiates everything. )
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To: rktman

Pant Crease Brooks remains true to his idiotic form.


14 posted on 07/11/2022 4:27:38 PM PDT by allblues (God is neither a Republican nor a Democrat but Satan is definitely a Democrat)
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To: july4thfreedomfoundation

“Red states need to go their own way.”


Im hoping that THIS is the ultimate outcome. I am more than done with

having to deal with the left. Don’t want to deal with them. Don’t want to be

around them.


15 posted on 07/11/2022 4:28:03 PM PDT by hillarys cankles
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Brookes just showing why he’s the token conservative on PBS and other networks.

Can’t earn a decent living being this this dumb so he pretends to be a conservative.


16 posted on 07/11/2022 4:30:10 PM PDT by RedMonqey
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These clowns severely underestimate the resolve or tens of millions of gun owners who will not stand to have their weapons confiscated by urban commie scum. Molón Labe.


17 posted on 07/11/2022 4:31:21 PM PDT by Levy78 (Reject modernity, embrace tradition. )
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To: Jonny7797

I hope they offer a lot for each one. Two pipes and a nail makes a shotgun.

Not real convenient for duck hunting... but I’d probably let ‘er go for a couple hunnit’


18 posted on 07/11/2022 4:34:46 PM PDT by Sarcazmo ("Sarcasm is the highest form of wit" ~ O. Wilde)
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To: rktman

I’ve got a 10-22 I’d take $20K for.


19 posted on 07/11/2022 4:36:38 PM PDT by gundog ( It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: aMorePerfectUnion

XD XD


20 posted on 07/11/2022 4:36:54 PM PDT by Sarcazmo ("Sarcasm is the highest form of wit" ~ O. Wilde)
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