The New Republic, a Progressive Left ‘zine owned by a gayzillionaire who made his fortune from the hard work and sacrifice of being Mark Zuckerberg’s roommate at Yale and tried to buy his husband a Congressional seat from New York … has revealed that the talk of “Common Sense Gun Regulation” really is just a smokescreen for the ultimate goal of gun prohibition.
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.
There’s no reason or logic given for supporting a Gun Prohibition, just the usual Progressive Left formula of social control. “*I* don’t like X, therefore *you* should be prohibited from X.” The left has already decided that Gun Prohibition is the goal. The New Republic is just debating tactics.
There’s also some blathering about “privilege” and racism, which the left uses like punctuation or like dumb people on Twitter use ALLCAPS.
So, it isn’t about suppressing crime and terrorism, it’s about egalitarianism. Convicted felons, diagnosed psychotics, and people legally declared insane or incompetent can’t legally own guns. Therefore, rational, competent, law-abiding adults can’t be allowed to own them, either.
I still want to know how these guys plan to seize every firearm in the nation without repealing the Bill of Rights – not just the 2nd Amendment, the whole darn thing.
We’re constantly told that the war on drugs in can’t be won (and there’s probably something to that) but they think a war on firearms can?
“Remember children; the first syllable when pronouncing ‘Duplicity’ isn’t Traitor, it’s Dupe. The ‘Traitor’ is silent…but we know it’s there”
I’d love to hear what Colion Noir has to say about this jerk. Black, loves guns, NRA spokesman, has his bar exam… I think he’d tear them a new one in any open debate.
“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 . . ”
Thee’s already a common,readily available, and highly reliable method to do just that: ask someone whether they identify as Conservative or Progressive Conservatives have deeply-rooted principles based on observed reality. This gives them a moral compass. Progressives have a belief system without connection to the observable universe. They have no morality, as Al ‘No controlling legal authority’ Gore so plainly stated.
Typical 2-3%er national socialists/communists/progressives, no different than their predecessors of nearly eighty years ago. Eighty years later and they still have difficulty doing the math.
Oh they have morality; it’s just that it’s ‘fluid’.
Our illustrious caretaker blogger neglected to mention that the author of the piece in TNR (which, incidentally, was a perfectly fine–albeit left-leaning–publication before the gay know-nothing bought it with his walking-around money) is actually written by a Canuck who lives in the People’s Northern Utopia of Toronto. So she can actually tell you how wonderful gun-free Canada is and how crime is completely non-existent there, particularly in the largest cities like the one in which she lives.