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James Taylor: Let’s sacrifice a little liberty for safety
Hot Air ^ | January 22, 2013 | Ed Morrissey

Posted on 01/22/2013 10:19:00 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

Oh, it’s fun to pick on celebrities who don’t know much about the issues on which they’re asked to pontificate — and at least James Taylor has the honesty to preface his answer to The Daily Caller’s Nicholas Ballasy with an admission of ignorance. In fact, he does so twice, when Nicholas asks him about Obama’s continuation of George Bush’s drone policy and on the “executive orders” Obama promised on gun control (actually executive actions, most or all of which don’t require actual EOs). At some point, it’s easy to feel a little sympathy for Taylor, who must be thinking that he’d rather follow Laura Ingraham’s advise to just “shut up and sing.”

Being a good sport, Taylor provides an answer — which won’t exactly endear him to anyone outside of Obama’s orbit:

(VIDEO AT LINK)

Addressing the issue of gun control, singer-songwriter James Taylor told The Daily Caller that Americans ‘need to make some sacrifice[s] to our freedoms’ in order to keep children safe. Following his performance at President Obama’s second inauguration, TheDC asked Taylor if he agreed with Obama’s executive actions on gun control. ‘I think the nation is very divided on gun control,’ Taylor told TheDC, ‘but I think the majority of us feel strongly — even the majority of gun owners feel strongly — that we need to make some sacrifice[s] to our freedoms, if that’s the way to put it. We need to make some sacrifices to what we might want to have, in order to safeguard our children.’

Since Taylor admits to a rather significant level of ignorance on the topic, it’s not quite clear what he means on this...

(Excerpt) Read more at hotair.com ...


TOPICS: Government; Music/Entertainment; Politics
KEYWORDS: awb; banglist; bhoinauguration; guncontrol; jamestaylor; lefties; music; obama; obamainauguration; obamasecondterm; secondamendment
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To: bassmaner
Don’t forget the 17th: direct election of US senators, which has done incalculable damage to state sovereignty

You are correct, some "common sense" updating to that misguided amendment should also be up for discussion.

41 posted on 01/22/2013 11:05:06 AM PST by oldbrowser (They are marxists, don't call them democrats)
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To: HomeAtLast

Is that true he is a bigger asshat than i could imagine


42 posted on 01/22/2013 11:05:30 AM PST by al baby (Hi Mom)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“Sacrifice a little liberty?”...

Never, Chuckle head!


43 posted on 01/22/2013 11:09:52 AM PST by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

44 posted on 01/22/2013 11:13:01 AM PST by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety”.
Benjamin Franklin


45 posted on 01/22/2013 11:14:57 AM PST by SWAMPSNIPER (The Second Amendment, a Matter of Fact, Not a Matter of Opinion)
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To: al baby
"How sweet it is - NOT!"
46 posted on 01/22/2013 11:16:15 AM PST by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: TheRhinelander

My response to the “Assault Weapon” argument is this:

Assault is a Verb, not an Adjective; It takes a person, and a decision, to Assault another.


47 posted on 01/22/2013 11:34:01 AM PST by um1990
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Well, using his addle-brained logic we need to shoot all known gangbangers on sight. They lose their right to breath in order to make it safer for everyone else.

How about that moron?

FUBO & FAD


48 posted on 01/22/2013 11:41:57 AM PST by RJS1950 (The democrats are the "enemies foreign and domestic" cited in the federal oath)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

You go first, James —


49 posted on 01/22/2013 11:45:17 AM PST by Uncle Chip
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

That made me noxious listening to him drool over Obama like that.


50 posted on 01/22/2013 11:45:45 AM PST by WCH
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

James Taylor believes that black people should be less free! If he believes it for all, then we can start segmenting their arguments!


51 posted on 01/22/2013 11:52:47 AM PST by CSM (Keeper of the Dave Ramsey Ping list. FReepmail me if you want your beeber stuned.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“We” have to give up rights? Really? That’s the first I’d heard that Taylor was a firearms enthusiast. Oh, he isn’t? Then it’s “YOU have to give up rights,” isn’t it? No sale, Jimmy.


52 posted on 01/22/2013 11:55:18 AM PST by Billthedrill
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To: Conservative Vet
If drug laws don’t prevent addicts from buying drugs, why would gun laws prevent criminals from obtaining them?

"But it's for the children!"

Excellent point, and one I will repeat to the appropriate people.

I grew to dislike James Taylor over the years. The last straw was some years ago when a girlfriend bought tickets to a Taylor concert and asked me to go. Taylor put on a pretty good show, except when he did "Fire and Rain", his best and most popular song-- he deliberately murdered it. To me it was proof that he was a childish, spiteful bastard.

53 posted on 01/22/2013 11:55:52 AM PST by Max in Utah
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To: ImJustAnotherOkie

“Lets give up automobiles. Public transportation is much safer.”

There were 200 deaths on the NYC subway last year (or 2011), we better just command people to live in their 200 square foot box and the government will send a delivery drone to bring us soylent green. You can pay them by riding an exercise bike to produce clean energy!


54 posted on 01/22/2013 11:56:19 AM PST by CSM (Keeper of the Dave Ramsey Ping list. FReepmail me if you want your beeber stuned.)
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To: Mouton

I agree and he may run for office. No thanks.


55 posted on 01/22/2013 11:59:02 AM PST by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Taylor needs to stay with singing insomnia cures.

STFU, James.


56 posted on 01/22/2013 12:13:40 PM PST by ScottinVA (More dizzying than a Tilt-a-Whirl is an around-a-circle argument with a liberal about gun control.)
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To: bagman
As far as I am concerned, having Taylor perform is an impeachable offense.

I've heard him perform the National Anthem, and you are correct.


57 posted on 01/22/2013 12:15:46 PM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: ImJustAnotherOkie
Public transportation is much safer.

My brother worked a temp job where he had access to the drug test results of our Unionized bus drivers and light rail operators. Let's just say, I wouldn't be so sure about that.


59 posted on 01/22/2013 12:18:46 PM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

This gun owner feels we have sufficient laws restricting guns and several should be repealed including state laws.


60 posted on 01/22/2013 12:33:31 PM PST by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously, you won't live through it anyway)
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