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GOP: Collapse on Guns and It’s All Over
Kurt Schlichter has a great post up at TownHall.
“Here is my proposed gun control compromise following the latest attack on children that millions of us did not commit. Ready? You gun fascists can kiss my Schumer and we keep our guns. In fact, let’s also repeal the National Firearms Act and impose national constitutional carry.”
This is what I’m talking about when I say that I do not care about the details of the Uvalde shooting, etc. I already know where I stand on an issue that transcends crime and violence from a pro-constitutional point of view.
It’s a good article with plenty of timely political commentary, and I agree with everything in it. If this election is truly the Republicans’ to lose — going flaccid on guns is exactly how to lose it.
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I completely agree. The Republicans who are talking about compromise are, as usual, trying to “play nice.” Well this is not a game and niceness has no part of this discussion. When will Republicans learn?? When will they realize what a compromise entails (as Schlichter points out–great article, BTW). I want to say to all gun law people, get off my lawn and go away. You aren’t welcome here.
I might be willing to reconsider my position, but not until I see one Hunter Biden arrested, convicted, and jailed for violations of the current gun laws. But that change would extend only so far as my position on whether we have a two-tier justice system, and not to the Second Amendment.
I love this line:
Pretty much sums up both of them IMO
One can make an argument that raising the age to 21 MIGHT reduce the chance of another such attack. Many of these attacks are done by people under the age of 21. Perhaps a better thing to do is to ask why young men are doing this in the first place. What are the commonalities about them? How can we identify them sooner and get them some help so that they don’t feel that violence is the answer.
But that would be too hard, and might bring up answers that people don’t want to admit to.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2022/06/the_real_reason_why_mass_shooters_kill.html
My mother used to work in the bad part of town. Every night they would shoot up her office. Every morning the police would come for a report. Mother asked the cop once why do not stop them. Cops said these kids are 12 and under. We arrest and the lawyers, judges, etc let them go.
What needs to happen is some law enforcement. Not selective enforcement against selective groups.
I am interested in some red flag laws provided they are reasonable and can be designed so they will not be used by liberals to just take guns.
KDW has a very pointed article in NRO today on how the myriad gun laws we now have are almost completely unenforced by the authorities, state and national. New laws are just political fodder. https://www.nationalreview.com/2022/06/enforce-the-gun-laws-we-already-have/
The Parkland shooter committed multiple offenses worthy of criminal charges, yet the school district worked tirelessly to protect him from any intervention by the police. These are the very same people that now want more gun control.
no. No. NO!
Growing up, we had a pistol range in our basement. My high school had a skeet club. My children were taught respect, respect for property, rules, lives, and guns. They were plinking cans with 22’s when they 6 years old.
Kids can hunt in their mid teens. Your “compromise” of raising the age to buy guns to 21 is unfounded, and offers no solution.
There is no such thing as “gun violence.” Guns cannot be violent.
Do not accept the left’s manipulation of the English language.
I will accept the term “gun deaths” in the same sense I accept “car deaths” or “COVID deaths.” And I will gladly talk about statistics relating to deaths in which a firearm was involved. But the term “gun violence” is absurd, and if we accept that absurdity we’ve already lost the argument.
That is SO HOT.
If they can ban one they can ban them all. Let them compromise our way for once.
Yet they will be vigorously enforced against the politically unpopular. IMHO, here’s the real goal: to threaten everybody with the consequences of having to answer YES to the questions “have you ever been convicted of a gun offense” or similar. Try traveling overseas. Or getting a job above board.
All raising the age to 21 is going to do is delay shootings by 3 years, make the would-be perps obtain weapons illegally, or make the would-be perps change what weapon is used.
School shootings will continue until the schools are “hardened,” and the debate we should be having is just what “hardened” means . . .
Not just on guns, on . . . everything.
But that never happens, does it?
Which is why the GOP must be replaced with an actual opposition party.
when you were a kid, did you buy those firearms? Did you build that range? Or, were your parents involved? I like making the age to purchase rifles 21. Kids these days are nutty and immature. Maybe it will be different in 20 years. But now, we need those 3 years for teenagers to show that they can behave in society. When I was in middle school, I took hunting safety and boating safety (those things are important in Michigan). Let’s bring those things back. Let’s reverse the War on Families. Let’s change schools to end the War on Boys.
Here’s the thing. Raising the age to 100 would reduce even more attacks than mere 21. If we let them debase our core arguments, the details do not matter.
Nonsense. This is just helping the gun-grabbers with their excuse-making homework, in an ever-expanding circle of things for which we were adults yesterday but children today. How can an 18-year old sign a lease or join the military if they cannot exercise a right GUARANTEED in stronger language than any other in the Constitution? How can they speak freely or vote?
Once you accept 21, then who conducts the next study showing you that the answer is actually 25?
Your age-creep gun law fandom is not a compelling argument because (as Richard Epstein would say) there is no limiting principle. We got gay marriage, now it’s trannies and pedos because we abandoned the last defensible (secular) ground — the status quo.
Open boxes — get Pandoras.
Defend what is instead of pre-emptively adopting the GOP “now is not the time to fight” stance. Fight now, not later. Later never comes.
Later comes, only by then we’re neck deep in industrial waste.
And then the GOP begs to be allowed to maybe only be elbow deep in the sh*t.
This is what I see happening with fuel prices. It’s closing in on $5.00/gallon here. Maybe there will be a reprieve and it’ll drop to $4.17 again (like it was just a week ago), and people will relax, because . . . relief!
No, you idiot. Do not rest until it’s under $2.00/gal. again.
So it’ll be with the gun grabbers. They’ll take them all away, and then finally relent and let us have Nerf Guns, and we’ll thank them for their magnanimity.
Eff that.
And here’s the high priest of the Surrender Caucus saying that resisting gun control is a threat to our democracy. El oh el you pharisaical SOB.
https://frenchpress.thedispatch.com/p/against-gun-idolatry
This guy is leading so many astray.
I will agree with the raising of the age of majority to 21 or even 26.
I knew who the Pharisees were (and why). I didn’t know, but did guess who was behind the frenchpress blogsite webzone. Pizza roll anybody?
Sure enough:
Of course The Atlantic reached out to David French shortly after Bill Kristol floated him as a balloon for a tiny minority of GOP support for an anti-Trump. Guaranteed failure. Remember back when Trump was the only Republican who could lose to hopeless Hillary, but then he won and nobody ever heard of David French before, during, or after that campaign? Yeaaah, that was great.
Now he wants the GOP to take your guns — apparently in his name.
Or 40.
That’s not the only problem with them.
Yes, our junior high school had a .22 rifle range in the basement.
Because too many people on our side are wimps.
https://ricochet.com/1268042/david-french-is-not-a-serious-conservative/
My thoughts on this
When gun violence, all kinds from all groups comes down in states with the most restrictive gun laws and goes up in states with the least restrictive gun laws, we might consider some of their proposals. I’d say we need to start eliminating gun restrictions on law abiding citizens using constitutional challenges in states drifting toward totalitarianism and arrest and jail folks who break real laws. I don’t have a clue what to do about crazy kids or the internet that feeds all kinds of perversions and disorders. It seems practices that have been around for thousands of years probably have more substance than notions cooked up by fruity cliques of overeducated fools.
Gun laws are for the law-abiding. Duh. No gun law will prevent the next mass shooting at any age. Murderers gonna murder and if they can’t buy guns legally, they’ll acquire them illegally. Or, they’ll use knives like the Islamists in London where authorities tried outlawing chef’s knives. Absurd.
We tell young men they’re worthless, they have no future, and if they display any masculine traits, they’re “toxic.” And then we wonder why they despair and want to go out in a blaze of “glory.”
Our culture is murderous. We murder babies in the womb and we murder the souls of our young people. It’s a good thing I’m not God, because I would have smote us a while ago.