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Quote of the Day: The Mental Work Is Finished at the New Yorker(link at this site)
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| 1/2/2015
| Dan Zimmerman
Posted on 01/02/2015 8:56:12 AM PST by rktman
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I tried to post this earlier but the newyorker is verboten for linkage/excerpting. There is a link in this piece to the newyorker piece. Just have a barf bag handy should you choose to accept the challenge to go read it. Talk about falsehoods and bed wetting. Concern is the newtown lawsuit against Bushmaster.
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posted on
01/02/2015 8:56:12 AM PST
by
rktman
To: rktman
There are many issuesthe overwhelming majorityon which we need an ongoing public conversation. On a few, we dont.The left says, "What's mine is mine - what's yours is negotiable."
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posted on
01/02/2015 9:11:10 AM PST
by
ConservingFreedom
(A goverrnment strong enough to impose your standards is strong enough to ban them.)
To: rktman
“Gun control stops gun violence. Gun possession does not deter crime; it merely makes it more lethal. Making these inarguable truths into necessary law takes the work of persuasion and legislation and litigation.”
Just like man-made global warming is settled science.
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posted on
01/02/2015 9:11:40 AM PST
by
GilesB
To: rktman
--and just as an example of the garbage contained therein, the reason cops were "outgunned" in most instances was the result of thefts from National Guard armories--
-- If anything, they tend to make a sniffy point of discriminating actual machine guns from mere semi-automatic ones, among them the Bushmaster. (Back in the twenties, the availability of the tommy gun to gangsters meant that the police were often brutally out-gunned.)
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posted on
01/02/2015 9:12:05 AM PST
by
rellimpank
(--don't believe anything the media or government says about firearms or explosives--)
To: rktman
BTW - the “mental work” at the New Yorker, while not finished, was ended long ago.
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posted on
01/02/2015 9:14:25 AM PST
by
GilesB
To: rktman
Mental?
More like reflexive knee-jerking.
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posted on
01/02/2015 9:20:35 AM PST
by
Paladin2
To: Paladin2
It ain’t just their knees they’re jerking. :>}
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posted on
01/02/2015 9:21:56 AM PST
by
rktman
(Served in the Navy to protect the rights of those that want to take some of mine away. Odd, eh?)
To: rktman
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posted on
01/02/2015 9:23:38 AM PST
by
FatherofFive
(Islam is evil and must be eradicated)
To: rktman
How can you finish something that has never been started?
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posted on
01/02/2015 9:28:32 AM PST
by
mistfree
(It's a very uncreative man who can't think of more than one way to spell a word.)
To: rktman
No wonder this moron writes for the New Yorker. Probably spent his entire life in Manhattan, which explains his myopia mental irrationality.
By the way, I didn’t know there ever WAS any “mental work” there.
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posted on
01/02/2015 9:34:03 AM PST
by
ZULU
(Quo usque tandem abutere Obama patientia nostra?)
To: GilesB
Gun control stops gun violence. Gun possession does not deter crime- said Adam Gopnik. Interesting coincidence: "gopnik" roughly means a street mugger in Russian, who would obviously prefer unarmed victims.
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posted on
01/02/2015 9:49:56 AM PST
by
Samogon
(Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something. - Plato)
To: ConservingFreedom
This is the typical leftist tactic of framing the conversation in terms like “ I think we can all agree on....” and that their position is the only rational one.
Theirs is not one of negotiation...it is “how can I get you to surrender” to my wishes.
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posted on
01/02/2015 9:50:29 AM PST
by
Ouderkirk
(To the left, everything must evidence that this or that strand of leftist theory is true)
To: rktman
The New Yorker is primarily a humor magazine, which also covers various forms of entertainment. Their cartoons have long been famous; but there is nothing in their pedigree that excuses making demonstrably false,
ex cathedra claims in order to lobby for taking away the basic rights of other people.
What is in fact totally undeniable, is that the better armed are the law abiding citizens, the greater the deterrent to the lawless thugs.
Of course, the cruelty of the wish to deny other people the right to defend themselves, must not be over-looked. The campaign to disarm law-abiding citizens can never be considered to be kindly motivated; the pretense that it is, has chilling implications. Those parroting the slogans of those pretending otherwise are analogous to the political cadres chanting allegiance to the Government, in a 1934 Nazi rally.
William Flax
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posted on
01/02/2015 10:03:11 AM PST
by
Ohioan
To: rktman
“The mental work is done” means “I’m not going to bother thinking about it anymore.” I’m guessing that mental work was done long ago.
To: rktman
Can you name one place where gun control is effective in controlling gun violence? Can you name one place where gun possession has not reduced crime?
Anyway, the second amendment is not about crime prevention, hunting, collecting, sharp shooting. It is about defending oneself from others, especially an overreaching Federal Government.
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posted on
01/02/2015 10:51:05 AM PST
by
dirtymac
To: Samogon
Gopnik calls himself a “Canadian-American”, no surprise there.
Didn’t know what “gopnik” meant in Russian - thanks for the info. Fluent?
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posted on
01/02/2015 11:01:01 AM PST
by
Baladas
To: GilesB
I have seldom seen a more counter-factual statement than the one you quoted. Indeed,that’s exactly why we need to keep posting malicious, evil drivel like this pro-criminal piece.
To: Baladas
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posted on
01/02/2015 11:07:22 AM PST
by
Samogon
(Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something. - Plato)
To: rellimpank
...discriminating actual machine guns from mere semi-automatic ones...Actual apples from mere oranges.
What sort of verbal flimflammery admits that one thing is not another, while equating them at the same time?
Also, Freedom Group should pay rent for being in liberals' heads with "the Bushmaster".
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posted on
01/02/2015 12:01:03 PM PST
by
Rinnwald
To: ConservingFreedom
There are many issuesthe overwhelming majorityon which we need an ongoing public conversation.
How can you have a conversation about something that is "inarguable"?
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posted on
01/02/2015 1:16:31 PM PST
by
Dr. Sivana
(There is no salvation in politics)
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