Saturday, December 5, 2015

Liberalism’s Gun Problem

by Ross Douthat
Dec. 5, 2015

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/06/opinion/sunday/liberalisms-gun-problem.html?comments#permid=16868873

This piece is typical of what the two conservative columnists at the NYT (Douthat and Brooks) have been producing lately - they are both intelligent enough to realize that the Conservative/GOP today is nutty, but they can't quite bring themselves to full-heartedly acknowledge that.

Thus, this piece by Douthat starts by acknowledging the realization that the US's gun-craziness is just that - crazy. But then he goes into his typical convoluted arguments that the proposals for gun control somehow are not doable and/or that the evidence (pretty darn persuasive in my view) from virtually every other advanced society are somehow not applicable to the US, or worse, would somehow weaken our Constitutional liberties - BTW, I feel the latest Supreme Court ruling on gun ownership is completely nutty 

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The craziness of the GOP is highlighted by the recent vote in Congress to DEFEAT a bill that would do nothing more than prevent people on the FBI Terrorist Watch List from purchasing guns - can there be anything more ridiculous?!

Douthat's last line of defense is to argue that, because there are already 300+ million guns in circulation, it would take fascist/dictatorial-like measures the "disarm" the country. The problem will not be solved all at once, but we need to start somewhere!!!

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