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Dershowitz: "Racist And Bigoted To Say That Guns Are Quintessentially American" (video)
RealClearPolitics ^ | January 7, 2013 | RealClearPolitics

Posted on 01/07/2013 8:54:13 PM PST by i88schwartz

ALAN DERSHOWITZ: I don't think it's the NRA power. I think it's people like us, not the two of us, but Americans who care about guns aren't doing enough to make our case to the public.

Because we think it's their issue. We've given that issue over to them because they have lobbyists they pay money. But in the end, the people determine the outcome. And it's wrong, and it's racist and it's bigoted to say that guns are quintessentially American. They may represent a part of America, but my grandparents who came over from poland and live in Brooklyn, New York, are just as much Americans --people who came over from Ireland, people who came over from Italy -- we're just as much Americans. We live on the coast and we have a right to define the America we want to live in and we have the obligation to win politically, to vote for people to put gun control as a high priority.

They put it as a number one priority. We who favor gun control put it as a 16th or 17th priority. So it's our fault, not the NRA's fault.

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KEYWORDS: alandershowitz; alexjones; banglist; guncontrol; guns; piersmorgan; secondamendment
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To: Rockingham

Hamilton rocks the subject around 30 or 32.


41 posted on 01/07/2013 11:45:05 PM PST by Psycho_Bunny (Thought Puzzle: Describe Islam without using the phrase "mental disorder" more than four times.)
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To: MestaMachine

The Jews of the Warsaw Ghetto were “dying” for guns, any kind, any caliber, to fight the Nazis. Though doomed, these Jews decided to fight evil to the end.

I must point out that a leader of the Free Polish Army,Stefan Korbonski, was the only Polish military leader (that I know of), who smuggled arms into the Warsaw Ghetto to give the people there a chance to fight. He was named a “Righteous Gentile” by the Yad Vashem Memorial organization in Israel, its highest honor that they could give to someone who was not Jewish.

Stefan was a friend of mine, and ranks up there with Polish diplomat, Jan Karksi, another “Righteous Gentile” as true heroes of Poland during WW2.

They are both blessed and honored memories to we Jews.

PS: I had relatives killed in Lemberg, Belzec CC, and Auschwitz Concentration Camp. Also had an acquaintance who made Molotov cocktails in Milo 20 before she, as a teenager, was made to leave the Warsaw Ghetto before the fighting (She ended up in a German slave labor camp as did her brother - Sachsenhausen CC, across the street). Both survived the war and she became a nurse in New Jersey.

History is full of heroes, too many unsung, but worthy of mentioning whenever possible.


42 posted on 01/07/2013 11:49:43 PM PST by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: Psycho_Bunny

It seems not, as those essays were on taxation.


43 posted on 01/07/2013 11:49:59 PM PST by Rockingham
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To: MadMax, the Grinning Reaper

So much of my family, German, Lithuanian, and Polish were almost completely wiped out. People on FR don’t understand why I get so ‘touchy’ when they lump all Jews together when speaking of the leftist dem jews who I don’t even consider blood at all.


44 posted on 01/08/2013 12:08:24 AM PST by MestaMachine (Sometimes the smartest man in the room is standing in the midst of imbeciles.)
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To: MadMax, the Grinning Reaper

PS
To this very day, as quirky as it might sound, I have absolutely refused to enter, let alone ride in, or drive, a volkswagen. I don’t use bayer aspirin or anything made by bayer. Have never bought a ford. A few other little things like that.


45 posted on 01/08/2013 12:16:56 AM PST by MestaMachine (Sometimes the smartest man in the room is standing in the midst of imbeciles.)
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To: onyx; All
I spend all day reading the latest news/opinion about mostly serious subjects happening now, both from liberals and pseudo Republicans and sometimes a conservative gets in there and I switch back and forth between CNN and Fox - I include all sides so I'll know what the enemy is thinking.

As a result regarding gun control, I am seriously worried Hussein's gun grab will be just the first “control” law and others will follow until we have to physically fight to keep our weapons.

In this first law, magazines are surely going to be limited to 10 bullets which is why there are few magazines left in stores now. A laser gives the shooter an advantage and I wouldn't be surprised if they are outlawed, too. If you want that laser, you should get it now even if you don't have the gun yet. Remember it must be the laser made for that specific gun.

Matt Bracken was exactly right. First they limit the kind of guns one can have and limit the accessories to add to the guns. Next is registration, then they are confiscated and the death toll starts growing. It has worked that way in every country that took guns from all citizens (except the bad guys keep theirs.)

The citizens of Australia gave all their guns to the government and they were all destroyed. Now, they are being killed in their houses and law enforcement can't stop it as there are too many. The citizens have added multiple locks on their houses and put in cameras but they have no weapon and they are terrified. I saw a film of the guns being picked up by a front end loader to be dumped and burned and saw/heard the citizens talk about their fear of being killed in their houses.

We cannot allow that to happen here.

46 posted on 01/08/2013 12:19:19 AM PST by Marcella (Prepping can save your life today. Going Galt is freedom.)
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To: i88schwartz

Not everyone lives in an urban environment. I live a mile from National Wilderness. I have bear and cougars wander through my yard. Yes, they are black bears, but that hardly makes me racist. People would be fools here if they did not have a couple of guns.

My ancestors settled in Maine in 1626. They had guns too. In fact, they took their guns with them when they fought at the plains of Abraham in the Indian Wars and in the American Revolutionary War.

My 93 year old father has hunting guns and a nickel plated 45 - the one he was issued as an officer in the Navy. Pretty sure he had it with him at Pearl Harbor.

Guns are part of my American culture which has very deep roots. I consider further gun control legislation as a declaration of war against my culture.


47 posted on 01/08/2013 12:30:27 AM PST by marsh2
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To: i88schwartz

Race cards are like dollar bills - When you print a couple trillion of ‘em, they’re not worth as much.


48 posted on 01/08/2013 1:15:52 AM PST by Cymbaline ("Allahu Akbar": Arabic for "Nothing To See Here" - Mark Steyn)
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To: i88schwartz
Just another leftist American Jew who is a Nazi. I just do not understand these people but they helped to build the third reich under hitler. soros turned in his own people for silver.

LLS

49 posted on 01/08/2013 1:18:27 AM PST by LibLieSlayer (FROM MY COLD, DEAD HANDS!)
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To: i88schwartz

I am curious. What does 88 stand for in your nic?


50 posted on 01/08/2013 1:31:51 AM PST by MestaMachine (Sometimes the smartest man in the room is standing in the midst of imbeciles.)
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To: Rockingham

Give me a break.....it’s been almost 20 years. lol

It was #29 : “Concerning the Militia”


51 posted on 01/08/2013 2:05:19 AM PST by Psycho_Bunny (Thought Puzzle: Describe Islam without using the phrase "mental disorder" more than four times.)
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To: Cymbaline

That’s good. I’ll remember that.


52 posted on 01/08/2013 2:22:41 AM PST by fattigermaster
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To: MadMax, the Grinning Reaper

The Bielski brothers and their Partisans are perhaps some of the most unsung Polish/Jewish fighters ever to exist. Even though they made the movie, “Defiance” about them, people still don’t really know their story and the heroism or how in G-d’s Name the three who were left survived to live out their old age in the US and Israel. That, in itself, is a miracle of miracles. One still alive in FLA. What I would give to sit with him and just listen.
I wonder what he would say about those ‘enlightened’ jews who call for the confiscation of arms today.


53 posted on 01/08/2013 2:44:03 AM PST by MestaMachine (Sometimes the smartest man in the room is standing in the midst of imbeciles.)
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To: Psycho_Bunny

Hamilton discusses the militia there, but not with comments that directly state that the American people should be armed.


54 posted on 01/08/2013 3:24:13 AM PST by Rockingham
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To: i88schwartz

Hey Dersh! Hitler took all the guns, so did Mau & Stalin and what happened? Some @$$holes never learn.


55 posted on 01/08/2013 5:19:03 AM PST by kenmcg (scapegoat)
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To: Psycho_Bunny; Rockingham
If the representatives of the people betray their constituents, there is then no recourse left but in the exertion of that original right of self-defense which is paramount to all positive forms of government, and which against the usurpations of the national rulers may be exerted with infinitely better prospect of success than against those of the rulers of an individual State. In a single State, if the persons entrusted with supreme power become usurpers, the different parcels, subdivisions, or districts of which it consists, having no distinct government in each, can take no regular measures for defense. The citizens must rush tumultuously to arms, without concert, without system, without resource; except in their courage and despair.

-- Alexander Hamilton, Federalist No. 28

Maybe that is what you are looking for. And Rockingham - you're a dick.

56 posted on 01/08/2013 5:48:21 AM PST by vbmoneyspender
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To: EDINVA
Exactly. One of the first things I bring up with my Jewish lib friends when the issue of gun control comes up is this: "You admire the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, right? Well, what allowed that to happen? Indeed...a few Polish rifles and some handguns smuggled in through the sewers. It's hard to be a hero in that situation without a gun: all you can be is a victim."

It makes most of them stop and think...at least for a millisecond.

57 posted on 01/08/2013 5:55:16 AM PST by Pharmboy (Democrats lie because they must.)
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To: i88schwartz

The longer this Administration lasts, the more I like “racism and bigotry.”


58 posted on 01/08/2013 6:11:16 AM PST by Little Ray (Waiting for the return of the Gods of the Copybook Headings.)
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To: vbmoneyspender
Now that was worth goading out of hiding. Thanks.
59 posted on 01/08/2013 6:12:09 AM PST by Rockingham
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To: i88schwartz
Whenever I read a lefty's comments on gun control I wonder; would they feel the same way if an intruder broke into their home, tied them up, raped their wife and kidnapped their children? Would they feel like a helpless loser who put their idiotic liberal logic before their family's security?

The violent outbursts are a symptom of the cancer that is eating away at our society and guns are the equivalent of an attempt at self medicating. Take them away and the afflicted will just grab at another placebo.

The cancer must be cured for the problem to be solved and the cure begins with God, family and the re installation of men as the masculine head of household > as God intended,

60 posted on 01/08/2013 6:18:08 AM PST by liberalh8ter (If Barack has a memory like a steel trap, why can't he remember what the Constitution says?)
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