Posted on 05/28/2022 1:35:40 PM PDT by rktman
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks said it’s possible to persuade some people by rephrasing gun control as “gun regulation. Like, we have driving regulation, we have cars, and we regulate the cars.” And stated that there are things like raising the age limit to buy a gun from 18 to 21, background checks, red flag laws, and having unique codes for firearms like the password on a phone “that can be done that are just normal, because we do them for cars.”
Brooks stated, “I think there is the possibility of changing the way we talk about this in order to get people who are winnable, and that’s not to phrase it as gun control, we’re going to take away your guns. That’s to phrase it as gun regulation. Like, we have driving regulation, we have cars, and we regulate the cars. And there are all sorts of things you could do that are kind of like what we do with cars.”
He continued, “Like, we could raise the age limit at which you buy a gun. It’s — this kid was 18. You could raise it to 21. That would make a difference. Background checks, the red flag laws. If you see somebody in your orbit who is suicidal or something, you can go to law enforcement and make it impossible for them to get guns. There are a whole series of things. Somebody made the point — I think it was my colleague Nick Kristof — that if you — if I lose my phone, and you pick it up, it’s basically useless to you. Because you don’t have my code. Why can’t guns be like that?”
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a RAT by any other name...
“Even compared with the other Ivy League legacies who plague our various media, is there a more condescending, obvious walking dog turd than David Brooks?”
Well, he’s right up there, anyway.
I'm a member of the 78 Minutes Party, now.
Shall Not Be Infringed
And they could do the same with free speech as well.
They love them some semantics.
Now THAT is what I call "Economic Social Justice!"
“Sorry but somehow drug using, emotionally impaired, sexually aberrant people should not be allowed to own AR-15s or other such weapons.”
How do you answer those who say “Shall not be infringed!”
No.
Your move...
Well, she-luh jackass Lee thinks the nra is practically giving them away at the convention. No background checks or ID required. SMDH! 😲
It continues to amaze me how entirely un-self-aware gun controllers can be. Their constant intention is misdirection, mislabeling, changing the vocabulary, and outright lying, and yet they appear perennially amazed that gun owners are not willing to trust them. There has been no good-faith negotiating on the part of gun controllers ever, only incremental demands for surrender. And yet they persist. So will we.
“Sorry but somehow drug using, emotionally impaired, sexually aberrant people should not be allowed to own AR-15s or other such weapons.”
ACLU would sue you for denying Democrats/Progressives their 2A rights.
David, you can regulate privileges, you can’t regulate G-d given rights.
Natural law and Nature’s G-d stuff, David. It’s in the Declaration of Independence. Check it out along with the U.S. Constitution.
You’re welcome.
5.56mm
“What part of “Shall Not Be Infringed” does this wordsmith not understand?”
“Shall not be infringed. SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED!!!”
They don’t need to convince those on their side and they won’t convince us. But they will try to convince all those in the middle. They’ll define things so that what they want to do isn’t an infringement because it’s not covered by “The right of the people to keep and bear arms.” We have few, if any, counters.
If, knowing he intended to commit murder, the police had managed to stop the Uvalde shooter and take his arms before he killed anyone, would that have been an infringement? Is bearing arms for the purpose of murdering others covered by “The right of the people to keep and bear arms”?
I meant to sent post 37 to you too but I fumble fingered it.
Raise the age of buying a firearm to 21. Also raise the age to vote or serve in the military to 21 also. Tit for tat.
Oh, like the Christmas parade slaughter?
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