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No, Joe, We Can’t Ban Trucks. But We Can Ban the People Who Drive Them
Legal Insurrection ^ | Mark Finkelstein

Posted on 12/20/2016 6:15:27 AM PST by governsleastgovernsbest

In the wake of yesterday’s terror attacks, including the one in Berlin in which 12 people were killed and many more injured, Donald Trump tweeted that the civilized world must “change thinking.”

A disdainful Joe Scarborough reacted on today’s Morning Joe: “I don’t know exactly what the civilized world is going to do about trucks, unless we’re going to ban trucks. But again, some of the deadliest attacks have been with vehicles.”

But the driver of the truck in Berlin yesterday was reportedly a Pakistani “refugee.” And the truck in the Nice attack that killed 86 people was driven by a Tunisian living in France. So no, we can’t ban trucks. But we can put strict limitations on the entry into Western countries of people who might drove those trucks into crowds of innocents. Is that really so hard to understand?

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Germany; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: berlintruckattack; immigration; islamicterrorism; joescarborough
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1 posted on 12/20/2016 6:15:27 AM PST by governsleastgovernsbest
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To: abb; SE Mom; HarleyLady27; connyankee; Behind Liberal Lines; Miss Marple; an amused spectator; ...

Don’t ban trucks. Ban the people that drive them into crowds.

Ping to Liberal Media Criticism list.


2 posted on 12/20/2016 6:16:13 AM PST by governsleastgovernsbest (FReepmail or ping me to be put on my ping list for criticism of liberal media)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Here’s a suggestion: K rails.

Sheesh.


3 posted on 12/20/2016 6:16:17 AM PST by mewzilla (I'll vote for the first guy who promises to mail in his SOTU addresses.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Bottom line: Merkelites are not good people.


4 posted on 12/20/2016 6:17:13 AM PST by allendale
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
Don’t ban trucks. Ban the people that drive them into crowds.

Isn't this the same argument with gun-control?

5 posted on 12/20/2016 6:18:56 AM 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: governsleastgovernsbest

No More Muzzies!


6 posted on 12/20/2016 6:19:01 AM PST by x1stcav (Leftism is like rust: It corrodes 24 hours a day until eradicated.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

The threat are not trucks

The threat is Islam

Muslims belong to an evil cult called Islam

Yes ban Muslim immigration to the USA , that is if we want to live and survive as a free country


7 posted on 12/20/2016 6:20:07 AM PST by rurgan (Trump and Reagan are the only 2 politicians to EVER have reduced Gov Regulations)
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To: mewzilla
Had to look it up:

Jersey barrier

8 posted on 12/20/2016 6:20:22 AM PST by P.O.E. (Pray for America)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Gee, Joe, let’s ban engines in trucks.

Then the trucks are harmless.

BTW, I am a Democrat strategist. /s


9 posted on 12/20/2016 6:20:26 AM PST by exit82 (Making America Great Again begins with........me.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

You can have my truck when you pry it from my cold dead fingers.


10 posted on 12/20/2016 6:21:25 AM PST by JPJones (George Washington's Tariffs were Patriotic. Build a Wall and Build a Wall of tariffs.)
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To: broken_arrow1

Exactly. As I wrote in the article:

“To paraphrase a famous line from Second Amendment defenders: trucks don’t kill people. People kill people.”


11 posted on 12/20/2016 6:21:26 AM PST by governsleastgovernsbest (FReepmail or ping me to be put on my ping list for criticism of liberal media)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
The Koran commands the Muslim invaders to all be terrorists and to engage the infidels everywhere. That means for dummies like Joe that they are here to kill infidels. Convert or die.

The devil worshipers believe Mohamed will NOT return until the world is all Islam.


12 posted on 12/20/2016 6:22:41 AM PST by politicianslie (What would a terrorist do if he were made POTUS? : Exactly what Hussein Obama is doing)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

I noticed this morning that people again are agonizing on how to vet refugees.

There is evidently another natural law in operation that has escaped detection by science and it is the law that the United States MUST take in all people who claim that they are refugees, that these people cannot lie, and especially we are required by the laws of nature to welcome in all refugees that are Muslim.

You talk about a chattering class that are absolute idiots.


13 posted on 12/20/2016 6:22:51 AM PST by odawg
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

It’s axiomatic that if people don’t lock their doors and windows there are going to be a hell of a lot more burglaries than if they did.


14 posted on 12/20/2016 6:26:06 AM PST by Mr Ramsbotham (Laws against sodomy are honored in the breech.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

There were two ADDITIONAL truck-run-over attacks by Muslims in the US - both in the US earlier nobody’s mentioning.

Las Vegas is now forgotten by the fake news cites.


15 posted on 12/20/2016 6:26:43 AM PST by Robert A Cook PE (I can only donate monthly, but socialists' ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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To: JPJones

Maybe we should have a national truck registry and close the truck show loophole!


16 posted on 12/20/2016 6:27:26 AM 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: P.O.E.

http://www.steynonline.com/7641/market-forces

The less obviously evasive responses were almost as dispiriting. An English tourist visiting from Birmingham complained that in his native city ugly bollards [Jersey Barriers] line the sidewalks to obstruct any similarly homicidal lorries in the vicinity. The Christkindlmarkt is a German tradition dating back to the Middle Ages: Munich’s is over 700 years old. A society that can only hold three-quarters-of-a-millennium-old traditions behind an impenetrable security perimeter is a society that will soon lose those traditions. My own preference, as I’ve stated, is that, if free countries have to have unsightly security controls, why don’t they have them around the national borders rather than around every single thing inside those borders?

“I think this is insane when I listen to people say ‘oh, we’re now going to have to have metal detectors in night clubs, security in nightclubs. Ok, so what happens next? They blow up a bakery, they blow up a little pastry shop, so then you’re gonna have to have metal detectors to get into the pastry shop?”

“Instead of having all these individual perimeters around every Dunkin Donuts franchise or every gas station, or ever J.C. Penny, why not have just one big perimeter around the country?” Steyn concluded. “We could call it a border! And we could have, like, border security!”


17 posted on 12/20/2016 6:32:12 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (Psephomancers for Hillary!)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

Gotta love Steyn!


18 posted on 12/20/2016 6:34:29 AM PST by P.O.E. (Pray for America)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

And yet, “ban guns” makes perfect sense to these morons. Sheesh.


19 posted on 12/20/2016 6:36:56 AM PST by Wyrd bið ful aræd (Flag burners can go screw -- I'm mighty PROUD of that ragged old flag)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

The media said “Truck rams into crowd “
Wrong. Muzzy savage drives truck into crowd.


20 posted on 12/20/2016 6:38:10 AM PST by I want the USA back (Lying Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country.)
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