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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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To: rktman

Why do the totalitarians call them “buybacks” ?

The government never owned the guns.

Hint: It is a simple propaganda tool, in an attempt to give the paid confiscateion program normalcy.


41 posted on 07/11/2022 5:59:18 PM PDT by Triple (Socialism denies people the right to the fruits of their labor, and is as abhorrent as slavery)
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To: rktman

How does one “buy back” something never owned?

L


42 posted on 07/11/2022 5:59:55 PM PDT by Lurker (Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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To: rktman
The problem isn't guns, it's culture.
43 posted on 07/11/2022 6:01:32 PM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: NorthMountain

Glock , Sig and S&W are the highest selling
brands of guns and typically sell for $500-$600
without adding an optic.
Who wants the government to buy up millions
of guns from peaceful owners who have to be
ready to defend themselves against violent
Leftist mobs like Antifa and BLM who have over
500 instances of terrorism since Biden took office
The efforts to defund and tie the hands of polic
have left us all defending ourselves.

Brooks as usual is clueless, he probably has
an armed guard with him when he goes out and
a fortified home.


44 posted on 07/11/2022 6:22:31 PM PDT by Zenjitsuman (f)
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To: rktman

“Ya cain’t buy back whut y’all ain’t sold tuh begin wit’!”


45 posted on 07/11/2022 6:24:45 PM PDT by Terry L Smith
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To: rktman

Just dredge all the lakes for sunken fishing boats full of guns?


46 posted on 07/11/2022 6:36:50 PM PDT by showme_the_Glory (No more rhyming, and I mean it.........)
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To: Terry L Smith

Your southern drawl is shining through. 🙂


47 posted on 07/11/2022 6:40:23 PM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
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To: rktman

I’ll “”SELL”” this illicit governmint some of “MY” estate sale, junk, guns amassed over many past years but only for a tidy sum and, Not to be paid for with government derived funding or tax dollars period.


48 posted on 07/11/2022 7:16:40 PM PDT by Recompennation (Don’t blame me my vote didn’t count so me)
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To: rktman

Sorry, the feral government is not of good enough character to buy a gun from me. It couldn’t pass the background check.


49 posted on 07/11/2022 7:18:22 PM PDT by zeugma (Stop deluding yourself that America is still a free country.)
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To: Toughluck_freeper

Fully concur.

Get training... ASAP.


50 posted on 07/11/2022 8:03:18 PM PDT by Sarcazmo ("Sarcasm is the highest form of wit" ~ O. Wilde)
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To: rktman

Obama-lover David Brooks is going to take our guns in a “buyback”!? LOL! We will DIE, many of us, before giving up our guns. The Founders SURE didn’t give up theirs.


51 posted on 07/11/2022 8:04:19 PM PDT by backwoods-engineer (Hold on, y'all, 2022 is going to be a ride you won't soon forget!)
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To: july4thfreedomfoundation

Secession Now.


52 posted on 07/11/2022 8:04:42 PM PDT by backwoods-engineer (Hold on, y'all, 2022 is going to be a ride you won't soon forget!)
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To: rktman

He recently wrote a great column explaining his view and research on mass shooters, but now he’s apparently back to being a dumbass.


53 posted on 07/11/2022 8:06:50 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Bus No. 2525)
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To: rktman

400 million is probably a
Very low estimate.
.
‘Blades of Grass’
comes to mind.


54 posted on 07/11/2022 8:11:58 PM PDT by Big Red Badger (We Are JONAH)
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To: gundog

20k for 10/22 ?
.
Must be a special one!


55 posted on 07/11/2022 8:15:43 PM PDT by Big Red Badger (We Are JONAH)
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To: Big Red Badger

My first one!


56 posted on 07/11/2022 8:29:15 PM PDT by gundog ( It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: gundog

Mine Too.
From Montgomery Wards in
The ‘70s.


57 posted on 07/11/2022 8:32:29 PM PDT by Big Red Badger (We Are JONAH)
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To: rktman
The parking lot at a gun buyback is the ultimate “gun show loophole”

I went to one in Ventura County and scored a Remington 66 Apache Black .22 autoloader, a Rossi .38 revolver and a .303 Enfield. Easy as pie. The entire transaction took about 5 minutes.

58 posted on 07/11/2022 8:46:45 PM PDT by atc23 (The Matriarchal Society we embrace has led to masks and mandates and the cult of "safety")
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To: rktman

Well. Since the progressives love to play the “it’s easier to get a gun than (insert current thing here).

So treat vaginas like guns. Register them. Ban high capacity vaginas. And, when that doesn’t work, a mandatory buy back program... No questions asked....


59 posted on 07/11/2022 9:32:43 PM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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To: rktman

I have written off Australia.

That fiasco with Covid convinced me that they have strayed from the Country I thought it was.

And I stopped buying Yellow Tail wine.


60 posted on 07/11/2022 9:41:11 PM PDT by Maris Crane
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