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It’s Time to Ban Guns. Yes, All of Them.
New Republic ^ | December 10, 2015 | BY PHOEBE MALTZ BOVY

Posted on 12/18/2015 11:36:36 AM PST by Lazamataz

Ban guns. All guns. Get rid of guns in homes, and on the streets, and, as much as possible, on police. Not just because of San Bernardino, or whichever mass shooting may pop up next, but also not not because of those. Don't sort the population into those who might do something evil or foolish or self-destructive with a gun and those who surely will not. As if this could be known--as if it could be assessed without massively violating civil liberties and stigmatizing the mentally ill. Ban guns! Not just gun violence. Not just certain guns. Not just already-technically-illegal guns. All of them.

I used to refer to my position on this issue as being in favor of gun control. Which is true, except that "gun control" at its most radical still tends to refer to bans on certain weapons and closing loopholes. The recent New York Times front-page editorial, as much as it infuriated some, was still too tentative. "Certain kinds of weapons, like the slightly modified combat rifles used in California, and certain kinds of ammunition, must be outlawed for civilian ownership," the paper argued, making the case for "reasonable regulation," nothing more. Even the rare ban-guns arguments involve prefacing and hedging and disclaimers. "We shouldn't 'take them away' from people who currently own them, necessarily," writes Hollis Phelps in Salon. Oh, but we should.

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To: redgolum

Hellfires are rather pricey. JBTs are a dime a dozen, to politicians, anyway.


121 posted on 12/18/2015 4:30:51 PM PST by wrench
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To: Lazamataz

That ain’t no lady.


122 posted on 12/18/2015 5:16:17 PM PST by ViLaLuz (2 Chronicles 7:14)
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To: Mollypitcher1

” AntiAmericanism and Communism thanks to the likes of Jane Fonda and John Kerry who were and are Traitors!”

One of the biggest was Walter Cronkite.


123 posted on 12/18/2015 5:22:54 PM PST by marktwain
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To: marktwain

One of the biggest was Walter Cronkite.
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Agreed! He should have been tried for treason for all his false reporting on the war. Just his stuff on the Tt Offensive......
MERDE!


124 posted on 12/18/2015 5:26:36 PM PST by Mollypitcher1 (I have not yet begun to fight....John Paul Jones)
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To: Cicero
Laz, I hope you wouldn't hit this?

With her attitude let us hope she does not reproduce.

125 posted on 12/18/2015 5:58:55 PM PST by TYVets
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To: Cicero

Uh, why is the Picture backwards?


126 posted on 12/18/2015 6:02:14 PM PST by Kickass Conservative (Obama, unable to call a Spade a Spade...)
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To: Kickass Conservative

Sometimes you see that, where the customers seated at the bar can read it from the inside. Presumably there’s another sign facing toward the street at the entrance.


127 posted on 12/18/2015 6:05:28 PM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: Lazamataz

Her eyeliner is crooked and so are her drawn on eyebrows...

And, she is nuts!


128 posted on 12/18/2015 6:05:56 PM PST by kcvl
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To: Lazamataz

Phoebe Maltz Bovy is a writer living in Toronto.


129 posted on 12/18/2015 6:07:20 PM PST by kcvl
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To: Lazamataz
As if this could be known--as if it could be assessed without massively violating civil liberties and stigmatizing the mentally ill. Ban guns!

Instant self-contradiction, and this dope didn't even notice it.

130 posted on 12/18/2015 6:07:52 PM PST by Future Snake Eater (CrossFit.com)
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To: Cicero

Thanks. I went up thread and saw someone else asked the same question.

Either way, all I see is a picture of a Liberal Fascist.


131 posted on 12/18/2015 6:11:16 PM PST by Kickass Conservative (Obama, unable to call a Spade a Spade...)
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To: Lazamataz

Phoebe Maltz Bovy, Ph.D. in French Studies and French 2013.


132 posted on 12/18/2015 6:14:50 PM PST by kcvl
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To: kcvl

She should know that guns are not banned in France, at least nowhere near as she is calling for.

She is simply trying to posit an Alinsky tactic of pushing for something much, much further than you think possible, so get what you want.

She does not comprehend is that the strategy helps us in this debate.


133 posted on 12/18/2015 6:43:47 PM PST by marktwain
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To: Fred Hayek

Ah, so you had Nicole too! :)


134 posted on 12/18/2015 7:31:45 PM PST by Lexinom
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To: Lazamataz

We should ban stupid. And she is.


135 posted on 12/18/2015 9:07:06 PM PST by MarMema
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To: Cicero; Lazamataz
She's going to get a crick in her neck walking around like that.

She wants to be seen viewing the world and everyone she meets strongly and diffidently askance, as if to say, "I know you're lying to me, so don't bother. You offend me by breathing."

Another dysfunctional chick from the race of Amazons that Betty Friedan begat. This is Communist wordpunk Friedan's way of impairing America's social cohesion and ability to reproduce healthy, well-balanced children.

136 posted on 12/19/2015 1:50:24 AM PST by lentulusgracchus ("If America was a house , the Left would root for the termites." - Greg Gutierrez)
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To: All
These idiots really think we're going to give them up without a fight or put up with more of their rules.


137 posted on 12/19/2015 1:54:02 AM PST by ssfromla
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To: DemforBush
Interesting that she wants to disarm police as well.

Bet her idea of a SWAT team is eight guys with one Colt New Police shared among them.

138 posted on 12/19/2015 2:01:57 AM PST by lentulusgracchus ("If America was a house , the Left would root for the termites." - Greg Gutierrez)
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To: redgolum
Then we are talking 10% of the population dead at a minimum in the first few years, and who knows how much later on.

Only 10??

We are killing around 25% even before they have a chance to get born!

139 posted on 12/19/2015 2:22:58 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: GraceG
Oh; I wasn't disagreeing with you; just that the article is coming after ONE type of weapon: guns.

Meet my leetle friend; TWANG!

140 posted on 12/19/2015 2:24:46 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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