[rktman]

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[Thommas]

..remember what happens when you attempt to compromise with people whose ultimate goal is your obliteration and why no amount of compromise will ever be enough.

Truer words have never been delineated.

The property rights of restaurant owners are not the only ones that have been abridged. The crux of this matter is the stealth elimination (unconstitutional in its method) of the 2nd Amendment. One has only to look in horror at England and Australia to see whole populations of citizens bereft of their rights to self protection.
In these countries, examples abound where not only are citizens stripped of firearms, but their governments have criminalized any attempt at self defense.

I hope we, the people, do not surrender to such tyranny.

[BitWielder1]

Disarming law abiding citizens will not deter crazies, criminals and terrorists.

[beef]

This article is spot on. If you point out the obvious true goal, they accuse you of making a straw man argument. We have to counter that with evidence of the true goal.

I find it kind of ironic that if the true goal was not total confiscation of all firearms, they might actually get some of the legislation that are proposing.

[grumpygresh]

Absolutely. No expanded background checks. I do t want some BS where Feds can troll through medical records or controlled substances databases to look for “mental health” issues. That would destroy 2nd and 4th at the same time.

[Retvet]

If the left wants to get rid of crime and something that doesn’t help public safety, get rid of criminal correction. Bring back the death penalty and expand it.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

Part of me had hoped the party of grave-dancing would find using children in this way would be a bridge too far, but the rest of me knew they didn’t have it in them to be tactful, decent people.

The reason is simple; socialism is cynicism. Cynicism towards society and concomitant faith in government.

That combination plays into journalism’s sweet spot. Journalism is fundamentally about bad news - and that can take the form of people and institutions failing society - and also government failing to do enough to prevent said failures. The failings of society very easily translate into goals for more government.

[Revolutionary]

If you give up a piece of your rights when someone abuses theirs; then soon you will have no rights and the freedom they protect.

[Oatka]

To paraphrase Carolla, there was a time when you could smoke in restaurants.

The East German Communists called it "The Artichoke Principle" - peel off one leaf at a time until you have nothing left.

I saw this in real life when I worked at Brown & Williamson (cigarette makers) in Macon, GA in the '90s. At first our programming section was on a rented floor in a GEICO building. They had a No Smoking policy for their staff, so those who did came up to our floor and smoked in the stairwell. The some pressure was applied and our stairwell was off limits. Then they had to smoke outside the building, so they hovered around the entrance. That projected "A Bad Image" for GEICO, so they had to move 50 yards away. Evidently that was too short a range, so they couldn't smoke at all on GEICO property.

When we'd go out for lunch, we'd see those employees a couple of hundred yards off, smoking near the treeline. I would imagine that, at the end, if you were a smoker, you either lost the job you had there or were not hired.