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Washington Post: Can Americans ditch guns the way we ditched cigarettes?
The Washington Post ^
| 05/21/18
| Petula Dvorak
Posted on 05/21/2018 1:54:57 PM PDT by Simon Green
Not that long ago, cigarettes were completely woven into American culture. The Marlboro Man, posters telling us that “more doctors smoke Camels than any other cigarette,” even the armrests on planes and all our cars were designed for smokers.
And now? Not so much.
Can it work like that with guns?
(snip)
I grew up surrounded by cigarette smoke. My dad smoked. So did practically everyone else I knew.
But my kids? Totally different.
They saw someone smoking in a restaurant while we were traveling abroad recently and they freaked out, like they’d witnessed a beheading.
Inconceivable in their world.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: District of Columbia
KEYWORDS: 2ndamendment; banglist; bloat; commies; districtofcolumbia; no; nra; petuladvorak; secondamendment; shutitdown; washingtoncompost; washingtonpost
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To: Simon Green
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posted on
05/21/2018 1:56:48 PM PDT
by
Jim Robinson
(Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!)
To: Simon Green
These articles will never be honest enough to acknowledge the primary issue of self defense required by rampant criminality in the USA
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posted on
05/21/2018 1:57:16 PM PDT
by
Mount Athos
(A Giant luxury mega-mansion for Gore, a Government Green EcoShack made of poo for you)
To: Simon Green
The insane libs can try and demonize guns all they want.
They ain’t going anywhere and we ain’t giving em up....just get over it already.
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posted on
05/21/2018 1:57:35 PM PDT
by
lgjhn23
(It's easy to be liberal when you're dumber than a box of rocks.)
To: Simon Green
Washington Post: Can Americans ditch guns the way we ditched cigarettes? Forcing us to wear seatbelts was the first step.
Then getting cigarettes wiped out of the culture was the second.
These two victories make the nanny state think they can do it again with guns.
After guns, conservatives will be eliminated.
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posted on
05/21/2018 1:58:06 PM PDT
by
Steely Tom
([Seth Rich] == [the Democrat's John Dean])
To: Simon Green
THE SURGEON GENERAL SAYS : WARNING - LEFTIST TYRANT-WANNABEES WANT YOUR GUNS
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posted on
05/21/2018 1:58:54 PM PDT
by
elbook
To: Simon Green
Washington Compost, please go belly-up
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posted on
05/21/2018 1:59:25 PM PDT
by
TribalPrincess2U
(0bama's agenda�Divide and conquer seems to be working.?)
To: Simon Green; tx_eggman
You can, actually, you little snowflake. You and your generation can wean yourself from guns.
Then you can have a parade to celebrate like the French did:
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posted on
05/21/2018 1:59:49 PM PDT
by
SpinnerWebb
(Winter is coming)
To: Simon Green
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posted on
05/21/2018 1:59:53 PM PDT
by
dinodino
To: Simon Green
Cigarettes were never acknowledged as a Constitutional Right.
Cigarettes did not have strong positive uses that were shown to save lives.
Cigarettes were not woven into human DNA as weapons are.
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posted on
05/21/2018 2:00:07 PM PDT
by
marktwain
(President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
To: Simon Green
Giving up smoking was to save my life. Keeping my guns handy is saving my life. No question there.
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posted on
05/21/2018 2:01:14 PM PDT
by
TribalPrincess2U
(0bama's agenda�Divide and conquer seems to be working.?)
To: Simon Green
No but we can ditch the Washington Post.
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posted on
05/21/2018 2:01:44 PM PDT
by
DannyTN
To: Simon Green
Just when I think the left cant not gt any more clueless
they prove me wrong.
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posted on
05/21/2018 2:02:12 PM PDT
by
RWGinger
(Does anyone else really)
To: Simon Green
Cigarettes are a drug.
Weapons are a necessity...................
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posted on
05/21/2018 2:02:30 PM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Remember all the great work Obama did for the black community?.............. Me neither.)
To: Simon Green
How about the way we ditched alcohol
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posted on
05/21/2018 2:02:41 PM PDT
by
uncbob
To: Simon Green
Shut up, WaPo. As an aside, I came across an episode of the Tonight Show from 1975. It seems bizarre these days to see Johnny Carson smoking on the show. He had on Joan Rivers and Truman Capote - a real time trip.
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posted on
05/21/2018 2:03:36 PM PDT
by
GnuThere
To: Simon Green
No, you have to want to quit.
We’re not quitting guns.
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posted on
05/21/2018 2:03:59 PM PDT
by
right way right
(May we remain sober over mere men, for God really is our only true hope.)
To: Simon Green
Smoking didn’t prevent a totalitarian government from taking over, so no.
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posted on
05/21/2018 2:04:18 PM PDT
by
libertylover
(If people come here legally, they're immigrants; if they come here illegally, they're invaders.)
To: Simon Green
I smoke while I shoot my guns.
Suck it, wankers.
To: TribalPrincess2U
They are trying to equate a very negative change (getting rid of the 2A) with a very positive change (quitting smoking) and the only correlation is that it’s “change”, and “kids”.
Next time the shitbags will use puppies or kittens.
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posted on
05/21/2018 2:04:32 PM PDT
by
Ueriah
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