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David Brooks: "I Think If We're Going To Control Guns, We Really Have To Do It Massive"
realclearpolitics.com ^ | December 15, 2012

Posted on 12/15/2012 3:01:01 PM PST by Tailgunner Joe

DAVID BROOKS, PBS NEWSHOUR: ....I think if we're going to control guns, we really have to do it massive.

I think I'm all for getting rid of the assault weapons and machine guns and all that tough, but if we want to prevent something like this, we have to really think seriously about drastically reducing the number of guns in our society, and particularly -- this is an old Patrick Daniel Moynihan idea -- the number of bullets. It is very hard to control 300 million guns. The bullets are a little easier to control.

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KEYWORDS: banglist; davidbrooks; democrats; guncontrol; liberalfascism; youwillnotdisarmus
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To: chris37
This is a country full to the brim of utter, blithering idiots.

The POTUS is proof!

21 posted on 12/15/2012 3:14:56 PM PST by Alaska Wolf (Carry a Gun, It's a Lighter Burden Than Regret)
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To: Mamzelle
He is drawing inspiration from the crease in his Master's pantleg.
22 posted on 12/15/2012 3:15:15 PM PST by hinckley buzzard
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To: Tailgunner Joe

A token “conservative” speaks.

House Poodle of the New York Times


23 posted on 12/15/2012 3:16:13 PM PST by GeronL (http://asspos.blogspot.com)
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To: Tailgunner Joe
... the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.

Yes to repeal the Bill of Rights is to do it massive. That is unless he is advocating an unconstitutional action of lawless tyranny, then just call it a tax and the USSC will rubber-stamp it.

24 posted on 12/15/2012 3:17:35 PM PST by DaveyB (Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. -John Adams)
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To: Tailgunner Joe
It is very hard to control 300 million guns. The bullets are a little easier to control.

Logic, history, math... none of these are the strong points for the Left, LOL. 300 million guns is too much to control... so the 30 billion rounds that are fired every year are the easier option? LOL

25 posted on 12/15/2012 3:18:07 PM PST by Teacher317 ('Tis time to fear when tyrants seem to kiss.)
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To: Tailgunner Joe
Now I know why David Brooks earns the big bucks. What an f’n genius.
26 posted on 12/15/2012 3:22:53 PM PST by JPG (Stay strong.)
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To: Tailgunner Joe

“...the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed”, unless you are a POS communist progressive democrat, then it is okay.


27 posted on 12/15/2012 3:24:20 PM PST by broken_arrow1 (I regret that I have but one life to give for my country - Nathan Hale "Patriot")
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To: Teacher317

FR is an echo chamber. This was a watershed moment in US history. 10 years from now when all semi’s are illegal you’ll be able to point to this moment in time.


28 posted on 12/15/2012 3:24:26 PM PST by Blackirish (Forward Comrades!!!!!!!!!)
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To: Tailgunner Joe

David Brooks,of course,will always have all the protection he could ever want...including firearms that *he* carries or ones carried by those *paid* to protect him and his family.


29 posted on 12/15/2012 3:24:42 PM PST by Gay State Conservative (Benghazi: What Did Baraq Know And When Did He Know It?)
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To: Tailgunner Joe

DAVID BROOKS, RIP.


30 posted on 12/15/2012 3:26:08 PM PST by bayouranger (The 1st victim of islam is the person who practices the lie.)
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To: ozzymandus; All
What if I write my post as an email to this idiot, what will the moron say?

The mainstream news media causes these shootings.

These idiots or psychos do it for the fame the news media will give them.

The news media makes these shooters household names.

Even if an idiot doesn’t do it for the fame and attention , the idiot does it because it saw it on TV or somewhere in the news media and knows learned how to to it by watching the endless news coverage. Advertisers know that repetition and just exposing someone to an idea or suggestion will get them thinking about it. the news media know this and are purposefully doing it to cause more shootings. the news media are programming these psycho shooters.

Then the evil news media uses the killings they created , the victim’s blood to further empower government , to take away our individual rights and freedoms as is their goal. The media do it on purpose as they know other idiots see the massive coverage of the shootings and will copy. The media are pure evil.

Let’s not give this idiot the attention he sought. Let’s not give the media want the media want, but instead turn it on the media and expose them for what they are doing. The news media are democrats/socialists and they want to enslave us.

31 posted on 12/15/2012 3:26:42 PM PST by Democrat_media (limit government to 5000 words of laws. how to limit gov Quantify limited government ...)
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To: Tailgunner Joe
Photobucket Come and take them....
32 posted on 12/15/2012 3:28:03 PM PST by baddog 219
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To: Tailgunner Joe

Algore did not win the presidency in 2000. Thank you, Gun Control!!!


33 posted on 12/15/2012 3:28:16 PM PST by TigersEye (Who is John Galt?)
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To: Red in Blue PA
Then why would someone suggest a gun ban?

For the same reason that Nazi Germany banned guns in the '30s. Because right now, the second amendment is the only thing standing between the 'rats in Washington and We, the People.

34 posted on 12/15/2012 3:28:47 PM PST by meyer (Proud member of the 53%.)
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To: Teacher317

Obama has already tried buying up a lot of those bullets. Sending them by the millions to various federal agencies.

These people are serious about destroying gun rights by any means necessary.


35 posted on 12/15/2012 3:28:51 PM PST by penelopesire (TIME FOR OBAMA TO ANSWER FOR BENGHAZI UNDER OATH!!)
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To: Mamzelle
What a metro-testicle!

You're massively right.

36 posted on 12/15/2012 3:29:30 PM PST by gundog (Help us, Nairobi-Wan Kenobi...you're our only hope.)
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To: Blackirish
10 years from now when all semi’s are illegal

S'ok. I'll still have mine or be dead.

/johnny

37 posted on 12/15/2012 3:31:05 PM PST by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: BillM

Yes If these media goons should call for any banning then these media idiots should call for banning the media as the media is what caused these shootings.

These psychos or idiots shoot people because of the fame that the news media gives them . The media makes these shooters household names. Even if they don’t do it for the fame and attention they never got in their lives they do it because monkey see monkey do .


38 posted on 12/15/2012 3:31:13 PM PST by Democrat_media (limit government to 5000 words of laws. how to limit gov Quantify limited government ...)
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To: Tailgunner Joe

If the balloon does indeed go up, I don’t suppose the patriots will waste time holing up in a cabin or plinking at the low level nazi goons. Rather they are taking names now and will probably go on the offensive. In a Civil War, the MSM propagandists should be at the top of the list of enemies domestic.


39 posted on 12/15/2012 3:33:20 PM PST by Sirius Lee (RE SP - Republicans, from Mitt Romney ..to Karl Rove... are said to be concerned she will win.")
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To: Tailgunner Joe

Easier to get the guns that law abiding citizens have than to get some street hood give up his gun.


40 posted on 12/15/2012 3:34:33 PM PST by SkyDancer (Live your life in such a way that the Westboro church will want to picket your funeral.)
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