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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: DuncanWaring

Agreed. That said they never even passed a law. There was nothing in the ACA about forcing the Church to do anything
..but they did it with a mandate. In your wildest did you ever see that coming?

And look how easily they manipulate woman now. Just wait till all those tiny caskets are being displayed. Outlawing semis will be a piece of cake for this crew


81 posted on 12/15/2012 4:35:22 PM PST by Blackirish (Forward Comrades!!!!!!!!!)
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To: gaijin

then he can tell us to pass a law controlling excessive bankrupting spending by state and fed govts before trying to control the freedom of Americans that may have to use the weapons to control the spending and taxes that result from the spending....

see American Revolution, French Revolution etc......


82 posted on 12/15/2012 4:36:33 PM PST by rolling_stone
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To: gaijin

Every time Obama even ‘thinks’ about gun control, he needs to have his nose rubbed in this big time & relentlessly.


83 posted on 12/15/2012 4:37:36 PM PST by MissMagnolia
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To: Tailgunner Joe

As many of us suspected all along it was Obama who killed those kids ~ see: http://www.washingtonguardian.com/washingtons-school-security-failure ~ him, Harry Reid, and because we are still cruising on continuing resolutions, Nancy Pelosi are directly responsible for the Connecticut massacre.


84 posted on 12/15/2012 4:42:11 PM PST by muawiyah
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To: Tailgunner Joe

Looking into a crystal ball I am trying to see my future, will I be a patriot taking back my country from mentaly ill liberal idiots or a gun runner or bullet smuggler? hmm more money in the smuggling, but I hate to see America go down the toilet without a fight what to do what to do...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdwUpxkfSJw


85 posted on 12/15/2012 4:42:33 PM PST by rolling_stone
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To: Blackirish

I don’t think outlawing semis will be as easy as you think.

Twenty years ago, maybe.

Today, not so much.

And passing legislation is one thing; enforcing it is another.

Murder is illegal.

As is posession of many plant products.

The IRA is said by some to have never had more than 200 active/working members. They kept Northern Ireland in turmoil for decades.


86 posted on 12/15/2012 4:45:23 PM PST by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: Tailgunner Joe
Nearly as bad as the criminal madmen shooting up malls and schools are the criminal madmen using those shootings to call for the wholesale destruction of our rights and liberties under the Constitution.

In the end, it is likely the latter group will end up killing many more people...

87 posted on 12/15/2012 4:47:50 PM PST by Gritty (One chief guarantee of freedom is the right of citizens to keep and bear arms - Hubert H. Humphrey)
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To: Tailgunner Joe

The Lone Ranger used silver bullets. It helped him to remember what a life is worth. They need to sell these in the inner city. They might want to wear them as bling instead of plugging people for every slight.


88 posted on 12/15/2012 4:54:32 PM PST by windcliff
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To: Marcella

MAny are now learning to load your own, so to speak. Then what?


89 posted on 12/15/2012 4:59:04 PM PST by griswold3 (Big Government does not tolerate rivals.)
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To: JRandomFreeper

The minute this happened I knew the leftist scum would exploit it. The little bodies were still in the school and the politics already started. They are the lowest scum there is.


90 posted on 12/15/2012 5:02:44 PM PST by peeps36 (America is being destroyed by filthy traitors in the political establishment)
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To: meyer
Then why would someone suggest a gun ban?

For the same reason that Nazi Germany banned guns in the '30s.

And as every well educated leftist knows, Chairman Mao stated clearly that power comes from the barrel of a gun.


91 posted on 12/15/2012 5:07:10 PM PST by magooey (The Mandate of Heaven resides in the hearts of men.)
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To: DuncanWaring
And passing legislation is one thing; enforcing it is another.

Bears repeating. Some folks don't take well to the yoke.

/johnny

92 posted on 12/15/2012 5:09:50 PM PST by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: Tailgunner Joe

All this comming from Liberals that claim that the detention, and deportation of ILLEGALS is too hard, if not impossible to do with 12M of them to find. Guess that would have to be done hugely. What a sap.


93 posted on 12/15/2012 5:16:36 PM PST by JohnD9207 (Isn't freedom worth fighting for?)
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To: Tailgunner Joe

fast and furious apologetics speak yet again. wonder if they would’ve called for banning fire because it burned down the Reichstag.


94 posted on 12/15/2012 5:26:55 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (I can neither confirm or deny that; even if I could, I couldn't - it's classified.)
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To: gusty

“The gun grabbers are all hat and no cattle.”

Sure hope to heaven you’re right, & that Obama doesn’t start signing a blizzard of EOs banning guns.


95 posted on 12/15/2012 5:29:07 PM PST by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam.")
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To: Tailgunner Joe

1 crazy nut going crazy now means disarming a hundred million law abiding gun owners...right....

he got these guns because his mom bought them for him making straw purchases, because if he answered the forms honestly he’d never have passed the backround check questions.


96 posted on 12/15/2012 5:29:56 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (I can neither confirm or deny that; even if I could, I couldn't - it's classified.)
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To: Tailgunner Joe

It’s illegal to tax a persons right to vote (the poll tax ) and there should be NO TAX on firearms or ammunition. monihan proposed a $100 per round tax on ammunition.


97 posted on 12/15/2012 5:37:07 PM PST by duffee (Newt Gingrich for Speaker)
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To: GnL
If one person (or a thousand) drives a car while intoxicated and kills someone, do we ban cars?

You ban cars and booze but only if the guy killed several kids. Uh, with the car, not by abortion.

98 posted on 12/15/2012 5:49:32 PM PST by Right Wing Assault (Dick Obama is more inexperienced now than he was before he was elected.)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

99 posted on 12/15/2012 5:51:16 PM PST by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: Tailgunner Joe
If they try something massive, I think we will see not a Million Man March on DC but a MANY Million Man and Woman March on DC. Imagine millions of people descending on DC, stocked with food, water, and shelter and supplied continually by others. There are enough unemployed to pull it off. OCCUPY DC.

I bet Homeland Security has been planning on "Domestic Terrorists" for quite some time. I hear they have some special places prepared.

100 posted on 12/15/2012 5:54:35 PM PST by Right Wing Assault (Dick Obama is more inexperienced now than he was before he was elected.)
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