Posted on 07/24/2012 11:53:48 AM PDT by marktwain
CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER: The problem for [Joe] Lieberman is the gun lobby is the majority of the American people. It's not a lobby that is stopping all of this. The reason that the lobby is strong is because it represents overwhelming opinion in the United States. How do we know that? The president of the United States, who had this tremendous opening if he wanted to push the use of guns after a tragedy of this magnitude could easily have done it and he has assiduously stayed away because he knows it's a losing political proposition.
Liberals in the country want gun control, Democrats don't. They normally overlap, but not on this. Democrats will not go near it because of the experience as we heard earlier about 1994, and they don't want to repeat that again. We're at the height of an election and they won't go near it. You're going to have discussion on talk shows and none in Congress and nothing will happen in terms of legislation.
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Video at the link.
You are right, but I might add that our whole elite is on a sinking boat with holes in every quarter.
The headline is hard to understand at first because “A is B is C” is not a standard sentence structure. But inserting “that” after the first “is” fixes it.
Even on “Democratic Underground”, the majority seems to support the Second Amendment.
The problem with Democrats is that they long ago tossed out the constitution or - worse - eliminated all meaning by coming to refer to it as a “living document.”
It is NOT a “living document” - it means just exactly what it says, and if they want to eliminate private ownership of firearms then they can observe the prescribed process and rescind the Second Amendment; otherwise, they can go pound sand.
‘Even on “Democratic Underground”, the majority seems to support the Second Amendment.’
Only those here who kiss up to the UK want gun control here in the US.
If FUBO is re-elected, then all bets are off. BLOAT!
Yes, and it’s the majority of Americans whose hackles are raised by “you didn’t build that”. Even though the majority of Americans are not business owners, there are plenty that are, and there are plenty of people who are thankful for their employment in this environment and know very, very well that their livelihoods are dependent upon WITH MORE MONEY THAN THEY HAVE hiring them. I believe 0bama has coined his own 0bumpersticker of defeat with that phrase.
A lib freind was going on about how we need more gun control after the Aurora Colorado massacre. So I asked him how come Obama doesn’t campaign on this massacre and campaign for gun control? Answer is obvious, Obama will lose the election if he tries
I thought Obama wanted to take our guns away?
I wonder if Krauthammer still feels this way-
“Ultimately, a civilized society must disarm its citizenry if it is to have a modicum of domestic tranquility of the kind enjoyed by sister democracies such as Canada and Britain. Given the frontier history and individualist ideology of the United States, however, this will not come easily. It certainly cannot be done radically. It will probably take one, maybe two generations. It might be 50 years before the United States gets to where Britain is today. Passing a law like the assault weapons ban is a symbolic - purely symbolic - move in that direction. Its only real justification is not to reduce crime but to desensitize the public to the regulation of weapons in preparation for their ultimate confiscation.” - Charles Krauthammer (from: ‘Disarm the Citizenry’, The Washington Post, Friday, April 5, 1996, page A19) Do you really need to know anything else about Krauthammer?
posted on Saturday, April 23, 2011 10:11:41 PM by Lancey Howard
His position has evolved, right?
His latest comments are not his position on gun control, they are his analysis of political reality.
I’m sure many well-meaning ahem conservatives believe less guns will equal less violent deaths. I don’t believe it..in fact, if more women were armed, there’d be less of them murdered. And if one person had stood up and started firing back at Holmes, I’ll bet that piece of filth would have messed his pants trying to get away.
LLS
I'll share a little secret with you- if wierdos even slightly suspect that a woman might be armed, they will depart very quickly. My wife has put the fear of S&W into more than one just by putting her right hand in her purse. Didn't have to show anything.
I believe that there are a few actual conversions out there- David Horowitz for one, and I think Norm Podhoretz for another. I haven’t decided about Krauthammer.
LLS
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